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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 IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
10 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Enable monitoring user for PostgreSQL database of CP4AIOps NOI hybrid application - monitor using Instana

As per IBM support & Neil Boyette's request, raising this as a feature request. Initially had opened this under Support case TS017890340. For more information, check this internal discussion in AIOps channel: https://ibm-cloud.slack.com/archiv...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add support for 'operSt: ok' response from APIC for SevOne SDN solution

It has been found that the 'operSt' indicator from a Cisco APIC will at times respond with a string "ok", like so: "operSt": "ok", Currently, the SDN product will mark this response with a '0' as it aligns with 'unknown' "unknown": 0, "down": 1, "...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Under review

"Limited access" users should be able to use "Analyze Infrastructure"

When you want to set the permission of Infrastructure of a group with "limited access", you cannot set "Analyze Infrastructure" permission to ON. It means that "limited access" users cannot use "Analyze Infrastructure" features today. I assume tha...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Turbo does not support SQL database scaling actions between vCore and DTU pricing models

Turbonomics can scale up/down existing tiers but cannot change the service tier (vCore to DTU) or provision an elastic pool. Existing customer would like to use it now. Could this be considered to be an enhancement to address this limitation?
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Dashboards: Add the setting to Hide Empty Lanes for list widgets

It's only possible to hide empty lanes if you open the full screen version of the view. It would be useful to have this setting controlled on the widget level.
10 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Dashboard: Add a widget option with a text table

It's possible to add a harcoded table to the text widget, however, in order to add/remove row a column, you need to hardcode another table. It would be useful to have the option of the ready table where you can add the text alongside with the text...
10 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Support for ActiveMQ Artemis version up to 2.36.x

Hi team, Our customer MinFin from Belgium reported that they aren't able to monitor their ActiveMQ Artemis because their version is not supported, we support until 2.6.x Can you please add support up till latest version at the time of writing this...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

In the "Oracle RAC" configuration, we would like to be able to monitor without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname."

Instana's monitoring of "Oracle RAC" only supports "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." Therefore, we would like to be able to monitor in the "Oracle RAC" configuration without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." There are "Oracle RAC" configurations w...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration