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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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Allow for SAAccount access from Impact to MSSQL server using ms jdbc driver

Allow Impact to connect to MSSQL Server using JDBC driver via a service account in Active Directory.
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Create a way to time out from for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator

For security reasons, we need to guarantee that the Netcool Administrator Console will close automatically after a certain period. This will make the solution suitable for more rigid security procedures.
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 5 Not under consideration

Add support for tracing HTTP CONNECT method

Many organizations require the use of an inline user-space (e.g., Squid) proxy when apps connect to the Internet. It would be very useful for the Instana agent to instrument common Java libraries to capture not only GET, PUT, etc., but also HTTP C...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Not under consideration

Multiple Choice for HTTP Status Codes alert

We were working on smart alert and just want to monitor 501,500,503,400,404 error. But don't see the abilities to add specific codes. Multiple Choice would be grate option to select alerts.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 3 Functionality already exists

Custom dashboards: Big number percent widget

Background and context When creating custom dashboards and specifically the big number widget we are currently limited to show data from a dataset for where a specific filter can be created. There is no way to show a relation between two datasets....
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

Analytics: Filter backend calls based on origin == mobile app

Background and context The context of this idea is that Instana is monitoring a backend api + a mobile app which is using that backend api. In this scenario there is a risk of getting other sources of traffic (scraping bots, malicious actors, frau...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Probes rules to enhance NetACT events with data necessary for ITNM to compute RCA

Current NcKL probes rules for NetACT do not currently set the fields used by ITNM for Root-Cause Analysis(RCA). This RFE is in addition to RFE 135039 on the ITNM side. It is meant to ensure once the probe passes the events with the necessary data,...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Turn on Ruby AutoProfiling via the ruby-sensor gem

As you can imagine we run many containers within our infrastructure and we want to be able to turn on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling#ruby. However, as you are probably aware this comes with a performa...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Ruby 0 Planned for future release

J9 AppDynamics Accelerator for Predictive Insights

Predictive Insights J9 Accelerator for AppDynamics: When connecting to the AppDynamics controller on a scheduled query (example every 5 minutes) we need to control retries when connecting. If we cannot connect on the first attempt we must be able ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

support com.instana.secrets filtering on HTTP cookie headers

The HTTP Cookie header is useful to capture for debugging purposes. However, for security in depth it would be beneficial to be able to mask certain cookies, e.g. the login/session cookie.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Security and Compliance / Tracing 1 Not under consideration