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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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• We can not create a custom event same same properties with built-in event.

Exp: CPU Steal Time exceeded – “Number of violations as a condition” property does not exist. we have to be able to recreate the builtin events so that we can create them using different threshoulds and such. some of the events does not meet our d...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

• Custom Service Detection

With a custom service detection, we need to create a custom service and monitor specifying class and methods. Instana is partially capable of doing it at the moment. however it requires to change the code itself and it is nearly impossible to do i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

URL based parsing

We need to seperate URLs into logical service groups. Our monitoring capabilities are depending on this feature
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Needs more information

Service naming feature

We need to adapt monitored service names with our CMDB. So, we need to re-naming auto detected service, host, process names. Difficult usage: SDK, environment variable definition no regex rules, no separete service type (custom service)
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

exception ignore

We need to ignore some business exception and doesn’t mark as a fail and alert. because every operation has its own bussiness exceptions and sometime they can be ignored for a period of time.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

ITP Asset Import from CT also possible for External Assets

Existing assets can currently only be imported from CT in a automated way, if these are not marked as external Assets. Use case: ITP Existing Assets should be importable to ITP from the most current asset register, also if they are marked as Exter...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Support Negative Filter Values For TopN Views

Some Indicators report values primarily in negative numbers; an example would be power expresssed in dBm. Currently, SevOne can only support positive values for TopN Filters, so creating a Filter like "Power dBm < -20 Decibel-milliwats" is not ...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

ELK and Instana Deep Link in Slack is required to make SREs and Developers analyze the incident easier

Due to the difficulty of understanding Alert details in AIOps Console,it can help SREs and Developers to add ELK link and Instana link in the Alert Details in AIOps console to Slack channel as Deep Link. This can make SREs and Developers analyze t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

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...
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Tracing extra-http-headers, extra headers are not available for thresholding and dashboarding

When using Tracing extra-http-headers, the custom header information is not available for use within Smart Alerts or within Custom Dashboards. com.instana.tracing: extra-http-headers: Customers want to be able to use the extra header parameters as...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted