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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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ITM LO agent dedup feature integrated with Instana

We have integrated ITM LO agent to forward the events to Instana agent; however, we found that the deduplication feature that the LO agent has is not integrated with Instana. For example, in ITM, we can dedup based on the Key attributes such as Cu...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Submitted

Train events to identify event anomalies

Events are received continuously and have a corresponding/expected payload which is used to perform important backend processing, e.g. policies will trigger incident creation based on field values, events are grouped based on scope values settings...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

View the usage of K8s PV(PersistentVolume) and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the PV usage exceeds 80%)

I want to monitor the usage of PV in Kubernetes and trigger an event when the usage exceeds a certain amount compared to the total usage. I would like to request the addition of this function.
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Functionality already exists

View and download the SUM/AVG of Pod's CPU/Memory usage based on K8s Namespace

The customer is checking the usage by Kubernetes namespace using "kubectl top pod -n namespace" and said that this function is essential. And they want to download the result of the command as an excel file, etc. They request that the following fu...
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Needs more information

Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Maintenance windows to have Object Level Filtering

Use Case - A device is up and running, however a specific object is down for ‘maintenance’. It would be nice to be able to suppress Alerting for that specific object or group of objects. Example: Circuit maintenance on a router with more than one ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Update the email address from stan@instana to instana@instana.com

The email stan@instana.com is not service account and conflict with a user named Stan in the organization.
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Instana in Jazz for SM

There is a need to integrate Instana portal in same DASH portal as Netcool Omnibus and ITNM. This way administrators would access Instana pages from same portal that contained notification in alarm form that there is an issue with application. Thi...
9 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration