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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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Ability to setup email alerts on APM usage and active licenses in Account & Billing.

We have requirement to setup email alerts or any alert channel on APM usage and active licenses on a particular tenant whenever the license usage is more then 85% we would like to sent an alert to a concern teams.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Ed25519 ssh keys when adding ActionScript target

When configuring the ActionScript target, the target discovery failed using Ed25519 ssh keys. The error says 'Could not extract key pair elements from provided string’. The recommendation within the bank is to Ed25519 ssh keys. When changing to RS...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Future consideration

Google Cloud Functions monitoring support

Hi, are there any plans for supporting monitoring on serverless platforms, particularly Google Cloud Functions or is there already a solution? Currently we are using Java Cloud Functions, but we also used Javascript based ones in the past. Third o...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Add support for monitoring performance query of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Background: My customer has been using Instana to monitor a native mobile application on AWS. One of their requirements is to detect performance bottlenecks of the application. Generally, I understand a database tends to become the bottleneck. Iss...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Correlate events with a change (recorded in SNOW, Remedy) OOTB

US FSM customers are requesting the ability to ingest change data and correlate events in Netcool / CP4WAIOps to that change. There are a variety of ways to represent this in our tools, but BofA / Morgan Stanley in particular are looking for a sta...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AIOps 4.4 - To support Configurable Parent Summary Propagation other than earliest firstOccurrenceTime

In AIOps 4.4, the Event Grouping Parent Summary propagation from Child Event is solely based on the earliest firstOccurrenceTime For Customer who want to upgrade from NOI 1.6.x to AIOps 4.4, this is a challenge. In NOI 1.6.x with CNEA and ASM, the...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Integrate with Bitbucket

We have support some pipeline integrations https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=apis-pipeline-feedback-integrations That can interact with our Releases feature in Instana https://instana.github.io/openapi/#tag/Releases H...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Integrations 1 Future consideration