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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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APIs needed for adding Tags and Zones for Instana agents

It will allow to do bulk tags and zones for a group of agents. We can of course use git based and Ansible but APIs are these days the easiest one to go for and if you provide swagger gui for APIs it will be even easier to manage. Since you are giv...
about 22 hours ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Can we add the direct link to automation library on RNA

Adding a direct link towards RNA automation library updates site directly on the the Pliant integrations page ( https://automation-library.ibm.com/templates )
about 23 hours ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Future consideration

Add integration for Opengear Lighthouse software

Allow direct integration with Opengear lighthouse softwar https://ftp.opengear.com/download/lighthouse_software/current/documentation/og-rest-api-specification-v3-7.raml HTML Version https://ftp.opengear.com/download/lighthouse_software/current/do...
1 day ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

Would like to have VMWare vCPU Shares (low, normal, high) as an attributes for filtering

To filtered down to VMs that has a certain vCPU shares settings. e.g. If all SQL VM should have "High" shares, we can quickly find if there is any SQL VM that has been misconfigured to have "low" or "normal" shares.

save filter button in analytics page

In analytics page you can do filter on applications and all other metrics ad stuff but you cant create saved filter for common search criteria or very complex queries.you should create a save button as in infrastructure page.
1 day ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Application - Smart Alerts - Select Services endpoints - with name reg expression

Within an enterprise environment, there will be hundreds of entities if not thousand. Secondary, entities can be created, deleted in an elastic process. Being able to add a entity.host.name contains "java-13", would allow for dynamic assignment wi...
2 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Dark mode in target process

Would be nice to at least have the option for a dark mode in target process to reduce eye strain. Thank you
2 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

It would be nice if we can get alert upon heap dumps creation on IBM WAS

A banking customer has requested the ability to monitor or receive alerts when a heap dump is created, but we currently lack this capability. Given this request, I’m considering suggesting to the customer, and potentially other clients, that they ...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Improve the Dynatrace integration so that it is useful: Proper proxy support and entity selection

The legacy Dynatrace Observer, which only pulled Topology, allowed for specific Dynatrace entities to be selected via the Dynatrace entitySelector syntax used to query the Dynatrace APIs, which allowed for granular determination as to which topolo...
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Enable Redis monitoring with certificates for Instana

Instana's current monitoring config the Redis instance does not use credentials to ensure monitor & retrieve data security, which means it does not support certificates. The lack of certificates support may become a shortcoming in future secur...
9 days ago in Instana / Automation 3 Submitted