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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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Deploy different instana-agent.customresource.yaml in k8s worker nodes

Hi, Based on the fact that not all the worker nodes run the same applications and ca be different between each others, it can be needed yo deploy different configuration.yaml files based on the needs. For example, put some custom tags inside some ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Support for Red Hat AMQ Broker

We are using Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing on Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 We know that Artemis...
12 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Tracing 3 Future consideration

It is required to have support for the Universal Payments Framework (UPF) technology developed by ACI Worldwide.

The UP Framework is at the core of ACI’s Universal Payments strategy to enable end-to-end enterprise payments. It is a set of technologies and frameworks that orchestrate all aspects of payments processing for any payment type, any channel, any cu...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Amazon SES as a destination of an email notification integration of CP4AIOps

Background: CP4AIOps v4.6 has an email notification integration function. When we create the integration in CP4AIOps, we must set the following value on the Add integration page following this IBM documentation. Name: Description (optional): Hostn...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Reflect host provision actions in the "Host Optimization Improvement" widget

In contrast to host suspension actions the "Host Optimization Improvement" widget does reflect host provisioning actions (see attached screenshot). According to engineering the reason is that the real-time market does not generate move actions bef...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

The time range of the link in event closure mail should be set according to the end date/time, not start date/time

If user click the link of the closure mail of the event, it looked like the event is still active, and the icon is red. This is because the time range of the link is:From: event start date/time - 5 minsTo: event start date/time + 5 mins But we thi...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Needs more information

Add possibility to group alerts by geographic location

We have many smart alerts per country both in the application and website perspective, it would be nice to be able to set a geographic location (editable or not). In our case it would be very useful to have a distribution by continents so as not t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.
9 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Planned for future release

Support of DB2 for LUW v.11.5.9

We need to install DB2 for LUW v.11.5.9, as per contractual obligations with our customer and because this version introduces some security fixes. TADDM version 7.3.0.11 is currently supporting DB2 v11.5.8; can you please evaluate to certify this ...

Instana needs to send notifications/alerts when active directory certificates expire in OpenShift on Z

Without this notification, it's a manual effort to keep checking for expired certificates
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Synthetic 1 Under review