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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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Could not find any Instana API to enable or disable all built-in/Custom events at once

Hi we are trying to disable all buit-in events at once and then enable few which we need for our infrastructure. Instead of walking through all existing events we found this would be more helpful to have an API to disbale/enable all events at once.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Retain filter when changing currency

When I change currency in ITP it removes my column filters.  Please retain column filters when changing currencies.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

OOTB support for Multi-Objectserver Cloud Native Event Analytics.

Most Telco customers have more than a single Objectserver processing their Network faults. The current limitation is posing to be big bottleneck for performing cross Objectserver Temporal event analytics. The request is basically to implement an O...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Event Analytics : Sort/Filter/Search

Enhancement 4 – Functionality IBM to create: Sort, Filter and Search on Policies including the Custom Fields
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Including Forecasts as a dimension in Reporting

Including Forecasts as a dimension in Reporting.
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Functionality already exists

Include optimization options as dimensions in reporting

I'd like to generate a report on rightsizing opportunities and for that report to show me the various options (#1 #2 #3).  Currently, I can see data in the rightsizing UI and have to click on the three dots to see the other recommendations ou...
11 months ago in Apptio / Other 1 Submitted

CLOSE_WAIT status monitoring

We need Instana to monitor, alert and publish CLOSE_WAIT status for running processes on a host. It will be used for troubleshooting as well as proactive measure to avoid any potential outage.
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Attach instana unix agent only to specific JVMs (inverse of INSTANA_IGNORE)

Hello, I would like to make a request for ability to attach instana agent only to specific JVMs (not to all JVMs that exists on application host which is current default). I found that there is INSTANA_IGNORE=true JVM environment variable ( https...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration