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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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Instana agent must bring metrics from multiple database services with different ports on local host.

The current Instana implemented code picks the “port” number from configuration.yaml file and figures out that what is database service name (or SID) and connects and brings-in corresponding metrics. IBM developers may update the code to read mult...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

IWS subtasks statistics

We have seen several errors in stats of IWS, the length of counters is incorrect and for that the most significant digit is lost (when next number to 99999 is 0).We need at least 7 digits in partial counters an 8 digits in total ones, according wi...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Logging add HTTP Header into the log parameters

Hello, Here is some infos about the request. We highly use custom headers to get contextual informations about HTTP calls . For instance device type, application version etc ..Currently we can filter these informations on the view Application> ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Logging 0 Not under consideration

Logging Level Info

Hello, Today the feature 'Logs' provide only warning and error log levels.We would find it valuable to also have a log level info because it provides a lot of contextual infos. One thing to point out is that if log levels info would be tracked in ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

INSTANA Agent to detect external intrusion

Hi, Could you manage the implementation of a feature where the INSTANA agent will be able to detect a tentative of intrusion on a host or some malware trying to use a vulnerability in the application.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need way to specify resource filtering for Built-In events

Dear colleagues, In Instana can monitor events using built-in capability for example "IBM MQ event - Channel SSL Error" or "IBM MQ Channel status". Our customer monitors it with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're in...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

reduce false positives for used space on data_files for "IBM® Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for Microsoft® Applications" ITM6 agent

Add an attribute, for example 'maxsize unlimited', to attribute group 'MS SQL Database Detail' that would allow to trigger a situation only if the maxsize is not unlimited (cf with auto extend capability).
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Enable OAuth2.0 support in Message bus Gateway

We want to integrate netcool with salesforce using Message But Gateway.Salesforce supports OAuth2.0 , but at present Message Bus Gateway does not support OAuth2.0.Kindly update message bus gateway to support OAuth2.0.
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration