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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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Mule ESB version 4.x

Currently, Instana can monitoring Monitoring Mule ESB version 3.x, however, version 3.x is already out of support: Ref: Instana -> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mule-esb Ref Mulesoft: -&...
17 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

WebLogic - monitor Web deployments

We are using WebLogic servers. Recently we had an incident in which a web deployment was not loaded correctly. Currently it's not possible in Instana to alert when a web deployment is not loaded. A support ticket was made and they suggested to cre...
17 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Flow widget to display total traffic with different visualizations

At the moment when using flow widget we can display total traffic with table visualization. If we change to for example line chart or bar chart we no longer have total traffic, only "remaining traffic". If you would like to have line chart of flow...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 8 Future consideration

Support Cron Expressions for automations scheduling

TargetProcess allows scheduling automations to run every x days, y hours, or z minutes. It would be a great improvement if we could use Cron Expressions to schedule automations. For example, if I want to run a specific automation every monday and ...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Under review

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Adding Maintenance Window for Object/Object Group

We currently have the capability to add maintenance windows for devices in SevOne. However, we need to extend this functionality to specific interfaces or objects. We request the addition of Maintenance Windows at the object level, allowing for ma...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

IBM SevOne NMS Alert Dashboard needs to display the Metadata column

The end-customers wants to display the Metadata field at the same time when he sees a problematic Object or Device on the Alert Dashboard (because there are fields such as the unit used and the contact person in the Metadata) The end-customer want...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Object Multitenancy Level - Ability to Obfuscate IP Addresses & Enhance Permission Management in SevOne NPM

Description: This idea aims to boost security and fine-tune access control in SevOne NPM and SevOne Data Insight with two key features: IP Address Obfuscation: Add the ability to mask device IP addresses in the SevOne interface, much like the curr...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration