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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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bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana

Want the ability to bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana. Some of our competitors have solutions that have out of the box dashboards for specific GCP services. But, they also provide the ability to specify a configuration to bring in metrics from ...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

verify IIS credential on agent setup or show missing credential in agent log

When Installing and running agent on a Windows host hosting IIS, the agent seems read the content of the application pool and site with the local admin right.if local admin rights is removed from the user that run the app pool Instana wont be able...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Trace Duration as Filter for Analytics and dashboards

For monitoring asynchronous systems like batch jobs, messaging it would be great to be able to filter requests based on the duration. Currently it is only possible for latency. Every Trace has this information.
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Unable to create events when DFQ entities are not monitored yet. Event creation fails instead it should issue a warning.

Issue: While creating events either via the API or from Instana user interface, Instana is not allowing to create the events where entities (referencing in the DFQ) are not yet present in the tenant unit. Below is the error message I got when an e...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Grafana Data Source Alert Management

Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Flexible data storage requirements for appliances

The data storage requirements for the PAS and DNC are rigid at present. While a customer may not have a requirement to archive metric and flow data for a period of 1 year, the ova files are pre configured with a set storage requirement. The storag...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

ASM servicenow observer to provide improved filtering of data either within the observation or post collection prior to insertion

It's useful because at the moment we have limited filtering in the filer API request, it applies to all classes being discovered and is applied to the API call made to servicenow. So you get a choice of Include or Exclude, but not the ability to c...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Allow more than one servicenow observer job to run which will allow us to improve observation times and more control over when/what we collect

At the moment whilst you can create more than one servicenow observer job, it is pretty useless as even though they have different job names and a different set of classes associated in discovery what tends to happen is that you might have a job t...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review