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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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Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
7 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

Identify Source of the Calls in Instana

If applications are running on a server on which Instana agent is deployed and those applications make calls to destination application which is properly instrumented by Instana, we should be able to see source details in Instana like source IP/ho...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
23 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

JDBC gateway supporting PostgreSQL database

GSMA accounts are requesting Netcool to integrate to PostgreSQL database. PostgreSQL also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system. Many accounts are looking to integrate to postgressql. I see Netcool impa...
24 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Deploying POP without the need for a Kubernetes cluster

We want to deploy a Synthetic Monitoring POP in a remote location in order to perform synthetic tests. The location does not provide a Kubernetes cluster of any flavour which blocks our use case. We would like to deploy a POP on an Android device ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Under review

Need to be able to export Turbonomic data to 2 different locations

We have a need to export Turbonomic data to 2 different targets. We are currently exporting data to ThoughtSpot, and also need to be able to export data to our DataLake.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Allow a way for app owners to see pending changes without Turbonomic access

Overwhelmingly, app owners want to know what's changing on their VMs (rightfully). Allowing them to see some sort of public dashboard of pending actions would help us greatly instead of either having to give all of them access or checking for the ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release