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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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Custom keyword for ELK

I would like to have the possibility of changing the keyword that Instana uses when redirecting to Kibana The problem is that Instana uses keyword that Kibana does not find, so when redirecting no machine is found.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Manually deleting specific traces from an application

We had a security incident at Instana, we found sensitive data in the traces of an authentication application. We are looking for a way to manually delete these special traces.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Service_Name - Oracle Sensor

TADDM (Oracle sensor) currently does not store Oracle Service_Name during discovery of Oracle RAC environments.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Log rotation for cockroachdb

Configure on the rolling of logs under /var/log/instana/cockroachdb as its been consuming a lot of space since we implemented the backend server. We need something in the configuration where we could provide details on how long these logs needs to...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Sector Busy Hour

Requirements from customer to have Sector Busy Hour calculation. Using the following small example, where we have the LTE Cells which belong to the same eNodeB “JHRTJML” LTE Cell Name Band Cell ID Sector JHRTJML_103 L26 103 S3 JHRTJML_102 L26 102 ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Option to disable CTRL-F (freeze) in Event Viewer

In in Event Viewer there is a shortcut for freezing the event list. The shortcut (CTRL-F) is normally used for finding stuff in the browser. This causes the user to freeze the event list by mistake, which causes them to miss alarms.We want the opt...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Mongo Queries getting executed per minute in mongodb to be shown in Instana

Mongo Queries getting executed per minute in mongodb to be shown in Instana where it is easily to debug more in case of db connections increase,load,memory and cpu issues
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Device Discovery report

Provide a function to get Device Discovery report that would tell if the devices are accessible from ITNCM, and good to communicate from ITNCM
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

DWC 9.4 - - Complex filters (multiple values for the same filters)

System: IWS DWC (Dynamic Workload Console) This request is for DWC 9.4 to have the ability to add multiple values for the same filter in a widget.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Get notification of updates & patches for on-premise installations

A customer running an on-premise installation will never know if there are patches or updates available for their Instana version. What happens if a CVE patch is published? Will Instana notify the customer that they have a vulnerable version and t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration