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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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Tracing support for apache/IBM HTTPServer on windows platform

We have customer with core production using IBM HTTP Server on Windows 2016. Regarding IBM Instana documentation only Linux is supported for tracing: Supported Versions - Tracing Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x, on Linux x86_64. Apache HTTP Server 2.2.30...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2

Websites/More metrics in Page Load trace

Based on many comments received from customers we will value you consider adding the following key metrics in the page load trace of websites:OnLoadTimeDOM TimeFirst PaintFirst byte timeRequestResponse Thank you.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds for all JVM custom metric sources

It appears only prometheus-java-client-library has the possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds and changing it DOES NOT appear to affect the other JVM custom metric sources, like micrometer. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Switch TEPS Dashboard User ID without shutting down and reloading the dashboard

Currently, if a user wishes to access the TEPS dashboard from a second user ID, the user must start a second invocation of the dashboard. This request is to allow the user to log out of one session and establish a new session without having to rel...
about 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release

Create operand to delete operators when uninstalling MCM v2.0.0

When uninstalling MCM v2.0.0 the user should have the ability to use an out-of-the-box operand to uninstall all of the operators MCM v2.0.0 creates. It is tedious to delete every operator when an install goes wrong.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Using Kustomize to Simplify Client Configuration

Kustomize is a declarative management tool that allows users to create different variants or configurations of a base yaml. A tool like this can assist our clients configure our product during the installation process.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Allow failover impact server in RBA configuration

When configuring RBA in a hybrid environment, with the Impact cluster on premise, there is only one option to configure the impact connection. There is no place to specify a backup server. if the primary impact server stopped, one would have to ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Allow customization of name for traceId value in Java MDC

Instana automatically populates the MDC with the trace ID. The MDC variable name is instana.trace.id. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-java-virtual-machine#logging-mdc-populated-with-the-t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Not under consideration

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud)

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud) to be able to send only actions for certain groups of VMs and Volumes that are for performance to ServiceNow during a certain time frame and other actions that are...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

Email Probe -comapatibe multibytes Email.

Email Probe does not support multi-byte messages.Japanese people use multi-byte emails, so I would like Email Probe to support this.
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration