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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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Support for newest version of NGINX (Nginx Plus v29)

Customer according to security reason made the upgrade to newest NGINX. Bacause libraries for version v29 are not availabe they have lost some monitoring abilities for critical systems. We need support for v29 version ASAP.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Future consideration

Being able to process v3 SNMP traps by auto discovering EngineID

Currently the SNMP (mttrapd) Probe only supports configuring the Engine ID's first, before being able to receive the SNMPv3 Traps. Probe should work in following fashion , this will take out of manual work to monitor traps from 100s thousands devi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Set alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage

Please add option to set the event/alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage in Instana events section.
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles. Currently can't. See highlighted example below of what is required. We have a jobstream with multiple runcycles, but want one of those runcycle to follow another jobstream, not them all. We hav...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Report Visibility permissions looking at all a user's roles

We have a single landing page report for a large number of users in our Apptio. This landing page includes links to a range of different reports - some of which are available to all users with access to the system, but others which are restricted ...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Submitted

Message Bus Probe - opt in/out for Updated JSON parser to remove any new lines in incoming event values

The update made to Message Bus Probe with this: PATCH probe-nco-p-message-bus-22 REVISION 1 - Updated JSON parser to remove any new lines in incoming event values before sending to Non-native process. This is causing huge issues in how we process ...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AIOps Incidents dashboard should allow additional criteria

The AIOps dashboard shows incidents by open It would be really useful if users could add their own chart to that to show incidents split by any field of the events in the incident
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Logging integration with Grafana Loki

Feature Request: We would like to connect our Instana with Grafana Loki, so we can benefit from a centralized (Instana) place to view and analyze logs and metrics. Currently Instana supports ELK,Splunk, Coralogix, Humio and Mezmo. Any considoratio...
12 months ago in Instana / Logging 4 Not under consideration

Db2 custom workload's metrics

Current Instana supports only Db2's default workload (SYSDEFAULTUSERWORKLOAD). In many cases, Db2 users create custom workload(s). Such users would be happy if Instana can collect these custom workloads' metrics.
12 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Planned for future release