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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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Instana should integrate with DB2 DBA/Management tools for deep dive export DB performance for troubleshooting and administration.

Instana customer have to use 3rd party DB management tools, like DBMariine, to retrieve more detail DB2 performance information for troubleshooting. Suppose Instana should integrate DB2 DBA related tools.
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Signing Instana agent images

Instana agent images should be digitally signed to verify content integrity.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

SNMP Probe able to handle v3 traps with 100+ end points

When using the SNMP Probe to receive v3 traps, these need to be added to the mttrapd.conf file. When the Probe starts, it reads in this file and creates a hash table of the entries. For 5k entries, this process can take 10 to 20 minutes just to lo...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Event Rule file detection at start up

File monitoring in Event Rules currently does not detect pre-existing files at startup. I would like to option to have file be detected at monman startup.The PMR field does not accept the new Sales Force case number it is (TS001148396)
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Mobile App Monitoring - App starts and views performance metrics

Hello, I would like to know if features concerning mobile app performances will be developped in the future ? We are currently using Google's Firebase SDK to track metrics like 'Application start duration' and slow rendering / frozen frames but it...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Future consideration

Built-in Event on docker container - CPU Usage

Hi team, Currently, on the docker container entity type, there is only one built in event (on the memory) : https://instana.io/s/oAKdnEMqQtuTNHKaq1JBAw We would like to know if it's planned to have a built in event also on the CPU usage which woul...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Logging Amazon Kinesis to instana

Hello, A few details about this feature.It would be interesting to explore the possibility to connect from our Kinesis Data stream. We currently push logs with Json format via Kinesis to elasticsearch.The idea would be to be able to push these Jso...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Add information in the DISCEVNT tables to improve reporting capabilities of discovery events

Reporting of discovery events, especially when using non-standard SensorNames (for example "SessionSenssor for non-anchors") os un-necessarily complicated because information about sensorName, and target IP, and targetIP_AddressScope are not repre...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

cEdge devices QoS Reporting to be enabled on SDWAN Health Dashboard for CCSDWAN customers

cEdge devices QoS Reporting to be enabled on SDWAN Health Dashboard for CCSDWAN customers
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 6 Planned for future release