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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Able to query IBM MQ Tags from the API

I'm able to query IBM MQ calls using the V2 API for traces: https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTraceDownload And I get details about the message but not from the IBM MQ Tags. The only way I can get those tags is using the UI and click...
12 months ago in Instana / API-C 2 Planned for future release

Maintenance Dashboard needs Enhancement

Currently the Maintenance Dashboard has the option of creating a Maintenance Schedule for suppressing the alert but as per our audit requirements we need to have the informations about 1. Who created the schedule? 2. Why was this schedule created?...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Saving NCO_PA configuration file via CLI utility

We can customize (add processes and services) of Process Agent settings via CLI nco_pa_addentry utility, but all new implemented settings can not be saved by any CLI tool.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Log4Net & SeriLog missing tags

Instana's log monitoring supports several very useful default tags, some of these tags are sadly not filled in for the popular .NET (Framework) logging frameworks, see below. Please fill these tags such that we can actually use the log monitoring,...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET / Logging 0 Planned for future release

Source address to traces/calls

It would be great to have some kind of source information always visible for traces/calls. However it is not always feasible to have the source application instrumented, or even to have an Instana-agent installed on the source host/node. Could...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Enhance the Workload Widget to show where new workloads are coming from to properly estimate and manage Turbo licenses.

There is a widget called Workload Improvement – and it has 3 types, On-Prem, Cloud and Hybrid. I think it would be VERY useful if we add various parameters to this graph (focusing mostly on cloud) 1)Provider (aws, gcp, azure0 2) Subscription (Acco...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Support for MaprFS

The filesystems are not mounted but show up using iostat. Please make it visible in instana. Reference for MaprFS (https://docs.datafabric.hpe.com/60/MapROverview/c_maprfs.html)
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Turbonomic - GitOps Integration using Webhooks workflows

Several customers request GitOps integration with Turbonomic, however native integration (ArgoCD + Github/Gitlab) does not fully meet this demand. My suggestion is to create a new integration option, where kubeturbo just collects information fr...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Not under consideration

We have checkpoint devices for which we need HAstate to get monitored, where snmpwalk for object is a string. It is required to poll and graph string values.

We have devices that need to get polled using string value.
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Artificial intellegence software assistance for medical coding applications

Digital or analog- audio raw raw medical data converting into medical transcription , medical scribing, medical coding format etc Doing without errors suggested for professionals for task simplifying We can use this idea for other transcription wo...
12 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration