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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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Capture custom HTTP request headers for outgoing calls

Background/Context We have a strong need to track http request headers on outgoing calls as part of detailed monitoring of a 3rd party integration. Feature request Support HTTP request headers for exit spans. In our case we need this for the follo...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Set the `release` label for the `kube_pod_container_status_ready` metric (and any others that have it defined) to the value of the `release` label of the pod.

I'm working on some Grafana dashboards for monitoring MCM. We'd like to be able to filter based on the pod label named release . I notice in the Prometheus kube_pod_container_status_ready metric there is a release label. It looks like that may als...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Show all information of the selected time period in the Kubernetes views

If a time period is selected and the user want to view Events and Pods of an kubernetes object (Deployment/Service/etc.) Instana only shows the Pods and the Events of the Pods that were "online" at the endpoint of the time period. For many users t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

WAS/JBoss heap size alerting

We would like the ability to have events, so that we can alert, on the heap size of both Websphere and JBOSS JVM's so that we can be alerted if the size approaches the maximum amount.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

extract more then one group with regex in the omnibus-probe

Regex support multiple groups but not in the Omnibus-probe. I have test it and only the fist group is shown. Example. $input="testTEST1testTEST2test" $output=extract($inpunt,"test(.*)test(.*)test") $output will show "TEST1" But I like to see " TES...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

GIS capability using ASM topology over ASM GUI under DASH

GIS based ASM network views instead of standard stencil or white board
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

This is tricky

I can't figure out the follow....
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add PATCH Method for Adding/Removing Members to a Group

Today, if you want to modify a groups membership via our REST API, you need to use a PUT method which requires you to post all members of the group back to the system not just the ones that have changed. If you are modifying a group multiple times...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Make the POST Targets endpoint Non-Blocking when adding New Targets

When using the API to add targets in bulk, each call to add a target is blocking and requires validation to complete (success or fail) before returning a HTTP response. This is less than ideal since the script/process adding targets has to wait fo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Add support for MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication

Instana agent does not support monitoring MongoDB configured with Kerberos Authentication
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration