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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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Enhancing RabbitMQ monitoring by decoupling queue metrics from node affiliation or implementing automated metric udates once a queue is reloacted to a diffrent RabbitMQ node

For RabbitMQ in a multi-node environment, Instana message queue metrics are tied to specific nodes, causing issues when message queues are relocated to different nodes due to node failures. This leads to failed updates and no data representation i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Provide user notification of unsupported cloud instance type

As CSPs release new instance types and the customer deploys them to their environment before Turbo has implemented support, notify the user of the unsupported instance types. This will ensure that the user knows that action generation is suppresse...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Future consideration

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Enhancing Maintenance mode bug

When someone puts 1 device into maintenance mode it only shows the first 6 digits of the device name. However, many clients have similar long naming conventions and you canno't differentiate between devices with the same 6 digit prefix.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Is a defect

HMC Sensor - Add the HMC "release version" version to the product metrics

NOC agents must generate platform reports with the version to determine if there are changes. Currently, they cannot view through Instana UI and must contact the administrator of each HMC to obtain the version.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Please update SevOne to support monitoring of the most recent Java releases

Update the SevOne JMX monitoring capability to support updated versions of JAVA. When developers build poor JAVA code it will chew through resources assigned to the JVM until such a point until it crashes and goes into garbage collection. Where co...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Enable to exclude entities from built-in events by DFQ (Dynamic Focus Query)

Users cannot configure any conditions of built-in events. However in some cases, built-in event could be opened even though it is not harmful. Users would be happy if you can exclude entities from built-in events by using (single or sometimes mult...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Monitor AWS Internet GW

This will provide metric collections in AWS for internet traffic
8 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 1 Future consideration

Integrate the Remedy BMC Gateway with Remedy ITSM

We have had several customers requesting the gateway integration for Remedy ITSM v20. There is only this information which does not address how the existing nco_g_bmc_remedy should be configured: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/netcool-integr...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Integration DPOD - Instana

DPOD allows to see in depth what happens with the transactions on the datapower, instana does not have this functionality and it would be complementary to have this information at the application level, trying to have a complete end-to-end view.
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration