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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 self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

JDBC gateway supporting PostgreSQL database

GSMA accounts are requesting Netcool to integrate to PostgreSQL database. PostgreSQL also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system. Many accounts are looking to integrate to postgressql. I see Netcool impa...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Performance tuning for XML gateway for reading events from alerts.status and publising the same to different Servers.

This is the integrated part of Netcool Architecture and is available, but delay is observed, while sending the details to Humio or any 3rd party system. In out cases, we are sending the same to Humio Server and delay is observed, sometimes the del...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Need databases names as services

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors self written application which connects to local database. We had permission issue which caused to create separate service instance for every database from received calls and customer liked the presentation. ...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Instana Azure sensor should support proxy configuration

Instana Azure sensor should allow to configure proxy. Exactly the same approach should be taken as for the AWS sensor described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-amazon-web-services-aws#through-agent-confi...
7 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring of AWS MSK in Topics Level Metrics

Instana can currently monitor AWS MSK in the cluster and broker level of metrics only. To improve the AWS MSK monitoring quality, additional metrics in topics level with the following functions will definitely useful and helpful for the MSK opera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

API token and API access like should be able to support customer approved central authority such as fedsso and LDAP

Current customer Security team required us to used LDAP/AD for any API access. currently we use File observer to send topology files using ASM username and password provided by NOI platform. We also doing metric manager integration configuration w...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review

Use Groups to schedule a Park action

The Park action currently only allows filtering by Name and Region/Tag, with Groups (turbonomic-settings) not being a selectable filter option at this time. Park using Groups would make more sense
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

cloud saas service can not found service's relationship.

We need to monitor cloud saas service relationship for all cloud saas service, for example mysql s3.
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Add support for Datacom equipment to TNM

Add support for Datacom equipment to TNM.
5 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Planned for future release