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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 event on multiple conditions

The possibility to compare / set into relation more than one value in an Event definition? I mean I have Data Source, Metric, Operator, ... - but only for _one_ parameter. What I need is something like this: Value A > 70% value of B -> Alert...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Additional ActiveMQ metrics

Additional ActiveMQ metrics (Memory Percent Usage, Store Usage, Health, Current Status, etc.)
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

instana to support monitoring of Axway

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Allow to use *AND and *OR in Omegamon situations with reflex action.

Having *AND and *OR in formula for situation with reflex action is currently not allowed. Lack of flexibility in the product means that whenever we want to test on the same type of event for example multiple queues, we will – due to the fact tha...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Export Config Data to CSV/XML Format As Well

Today, Instana API calls like ../api/events/settings/event-specifications/custom return data in JSON format only. Going forward potential enhancement options: 1) The U/I provides a way to export this sort of config data and allows it to be ex...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Sensor version and info per API

Currently it is not possible to query the version of a sensor being used by an agent. For many on-prem customers, the ability to get information programatically as seen in the screenshot (Sensor Info via the Agent Dashboard) will help automate tas...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana UI - show change history of instana configuration changes in the gui

We are running enterprise monitoring with instana. Changes to instana configuration such as creation or change to application perspectives, alerts, maintenance windows etc. should displayed to users (eg. as already possible with button history for...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

WebGUI - Warning message on executing right click tools

Requirement:On executing right click tool in WebGui for multiple alerts a warning message should be displayed. Right click tools configuration should have the capability where we can define some kind of threshold on number of alerts selected and d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Enhance List Widget to work with touch and mouse on devices with touchscreen

If a List Widget is loaded on any page of DASH, this List Widget will not show any Scrollbar, if opened on a browser on a device with touchscreen. So it is hard to use with mouse then. Other functionality as HTML-Links within SmartText Widget and ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration