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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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Synthetic Data not available for dashboards

We are not able to create dashboard with synthetics data, use cases: * line graph of historical results of all synthetics in a specific location or by region for x range of days* see all failed synthetics for a pop location or for a region in a gi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Future consideration

Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1

Customer wants a more sophisticated turbonomic system status page

The customer is concerned with hard outages and soft (data) outages. Wants to see this on one page. - like apple or datadog platform status page. Can we pull the details of the current System Health and System Alert pages into one cohesive page. A...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / SaaS 2 Future consideration

Add authentication capabilities to eum-acceptor download GeoLite2 DB from sources with authentication.

Dear colleagues, Our customer was trying to associate EUM transaction with geographical location while using self-hosted Instana. We can specify the location of GeoLite2 DB by setting the location in Instana core manifest, but there is no way to s...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Need provide appropriate solution for EUM to collect data using gateway

Dear colleagues, following the Standard Instana deployment instructions in the dashboard to set EUM monitoring doesn't allow to determine IP Address because Instana gateway configuration doesn't have proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; config...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

The policy based alert based on flow conditions also to send out a flow output

This is useful in organisations to rapidly have the information available for i.e top talkers whilst a high utilisation event is being triggered.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

automatic clearing of events log

events fill up and alerting stops
about 2 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release

Synthetic Alerts

Alerts that are defined within SevOne are restricted to the trigger conditions within that policy. The idea here is to be able to define synthetic alerts based on the presence or count of another alert (or multiple). The main requirement is for al...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

HANA DB Sensor - Generate Event for Archive Log Backup

Generate Event for Archive Log Backup
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

HANA DB Sensor - Display built in Events for DBA Jobs

Display built in Events for DBA Jobs
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review