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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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Remove Android Character Limit

I would like to request that the android-agent in the CustomEvent file be updated to remove the 1024-character limit on logs. This is because the current limit is causing logs to be truncated from Android devices, whereas they are not from iOS dev...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Support PagerDuty PD-CEF (Severity)

Currently when instana sends even details to PD, it lacks critical information like severity and uses a non-standard format. Ideally Instana alerts to PD conform to https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/pd-cef and include severity.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Version Tagging for agent and sensor

We want to have a version tag on the agent as well as for the sensors. At the moment agents have the version latest or a uuis. Also there is the boot version what does not have any functionality.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Dynamically SNMP Credentials change acceptance

Enhancement request in processing dynamically SNMP Credentials change(made to SnmpStackSecurityInfo.cfg via CLI/GUI) by ITNM and minimize downtime of Monitoring via Poller processes. Keeping, new security policies in mind, would required this func...
7 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Message Bus Probe basic auth user expanded

The basic authentication user account only allows for a single username and password. This might work well in a very small company, but gets more challenging in a larger organization. What would make this more useful is to allow the basic auth use...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 4 Future consideration

Object Type Utilization Metrics | Managing Object Licenses for Cluster

A capability to identify which object types are being used the most in your environment would spearhead administrative actions to reduce or reevaluate object types existing in large environments. If an object type is not found anywhere in the clus...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 4 Future consideration

Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Future consideration

TopN Views: CPU and memory utilization view creation requires finding the correct variables.

One must go through the many CPU and memory variables and select the correct ones to provide the desired results for all devices in the group.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration