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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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Administrator permission should not be required on Windows

Programs such as conman and composer should not require Administrator permission on Microsoft Windows.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Need a even / alert generated for missing MQ Objects (queues/channels/topics/subscription etc) including system objects

These objects are very important if go missing, after some incident happens or someone deletes them accidentally can hamper entire MQ operation
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Omnibus Gateway map file conversion of UTC time values to date time string

Some OMNIbus Gateways produce output where UTC time values need to be written out as a date time string. For example it might be necessary to covert 1666183259 to 'Wed Oct 19 13:40:59 2022' or similar. The gateway mapping file process already pro...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Tracing 'Send Email' actions

"Should we see emails sent by our java apps using springs Java mail sender? (I am missing outgoing Emails inside the trace or the email-server as an unmonitored system / host)"
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java 0 Not under consideration

Detailed framework and JDBC information

Ability to collect and report on the used versions of instrumentation frameworks and jdbc drivers. Use-Case: Having performance problems on the database front and with having this information we can determine or exclude problems based on the jdbc ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java 3 Not under consideration

Alerts for JVM Total Thread count

Could you please let know if we can create an alert if the total thread count is greater than a certain value
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Better Agent update management

Controlling and managing agent updates is difficult, and at times does not work, or at least, does not work as expected. We have had difficulty suspending updates in K8s - turning it off has been temporary, finding it on again. Automatic updates...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Output of netstat from host dashboard

In this particular case - execute a netstat command and get the output - perhaps in a popup window like we do for thread dumps or command line parameters. In general, I get requests to execute arbitrary commands from the context of a dashboard. ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

long SQL query limit

when an application run long SQL queries in a call, the query seems to be cut of after 4096 characters. In my case the query is generated from MS Dynamics 365 and I would like to see the 'Group by' and 'where' statements as well, to determind if t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Proxy support for IWS ServiceNow interface

The IWS ServiceNow interface introduced with IWS v9.4 lacks the ability to specify a proxy server in the call to ServiceNow. I am requesting that that functionality be added.
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release