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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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Documentation Upgrades

Recently went through installing an Instana Kubernetes cluster and we had significant issues due to the documentation. It is too vague, misleading, and the examples given are often confusing or incomplete. We got answers from support individuals t...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Not under consideration

Pod readiness alert should heed delay settings

We've got some issues with the pod readiness event. Some of our pods need some time to start. To make up for this we've set the initialDelaySeconds value on our probes. However the pod unready probe does alert after a pod has been unready for a mi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

MSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host

Since theMSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host.We can extract either the default port without the configuration or the non default port which is configured via co...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ability to RightSize a VM’s vMem and vCPU at the same time.

The clients would benefit by being able to take multiple actions at once. Increased efficiency
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Functionality already exists

Self-recovery in case of OOM error to improve reliability of the instana agent service

Background Instana agent has default JAVA heap as follows: JAVA_MIN_MEM=64mexport JAVA_MIN_MEMJAVA_MAX_MEM=160mexport JAVA_MAX_MEM Despite setting more than 3 times the heap size for JAVA_MAX_MEM (eg. 512m) over the nominal memory usage (eg. avera...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Customise DASH LOGON.JSP

Just want to customise LOGON.JSP with company logo or background image. Also add some HTML Anchor links or buttons to access the external app or internal DASH pages [DASHBOARD] Create banner or maintenance message and special instructions to users...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

EWS Probe for reading email attachments

We are using EWS probe for reading emails from outlook site, as the end user report most frequent problems with attachment of the issue over email to common mailbox. We have enabled the netcool probe to read emails from outlook, but using the E...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Improvement of the Deployment of CA signed certificate for cp4mcm product

Openshit Version : 4.2 Cloudpak-MCM version : 1.2.0 Enterprise Hosting Cloud : AWS Background: During CP4MCM installation , installer expects the certificate (BYOC) to be located inside cfc-component directory which works perfectly fine. Feature e...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Planned for future release

Excluding specific endpoints from monitoring

Instana agent discover and monitor all endpoints however some of them may be irrelevant,under maintenance or fixing progress. So it will be useful to disable/exclude specific endpoints from monitoring when needed. This feature may help us to monit...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

Fixed threshold for Metrics Anomalies

Metrics Processing currently works based on a dynamically measured baseline and alerting based on the various models. In the majority of scenarios, this will deliver positive business outcomes. It would be beneficial to also be able to set a "Fixe...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration