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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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I want the SNMP Working Yes/No filter to be real-time - not based on the last successful discovery

When I set the SNMP Yes / Working No filter, I expect the result to be accurate - not based on the result of the last successful discovery. I should not have to manually check the results of the filter to see if they accurate.
10 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Gather Serilog data from serilog sink

Serilog uses sinks for writing log events to storage in various formats. Add option for instana to collect Serilog logs with sink to compete with Dynatrace, datadog and New Relic that do this today. This is a list of competitors that already have ...
10 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
10 days ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Certificate the integration between Netcool Omnibus JDBC Gateway and OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

The customer wants to integrate the Netcool Omnibus Gateway JDBC (NOI 1.6.11 on-premise) to OCL (Oracle Clous Infrastructure Oracle 19). we create the case TS015960524 and IBM support says that the Netcool JDBC Gateway is not certificated and not ...
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

multi-tenency and multi-chatops channel support for Cloud Pak for AIOps

We have been discussing these topics with the WW AIOps team for some time now. Based on what I've heard, multi-tenancy and multi-ChatOps channel functionalities are part of the product backlog but do not have a specific timeline yet. As the client...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Crash reporting in react-native

The mobile application developers can use the crash analysis feature in Instana to detect, understand, and fix the application crash as soon as possible. Today, Instana doesnt have enabled crash reporting in react-native and customers who have ena...
20 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions. Question by IBM team.------------------------...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration

Configurable Sampling Rate and Ignoring Calls

Detail : We would like to configure the sampling rate of a process or a service in Instana. For example, there are 10 different call names for one process, but we just want to see 2 of them to be captured by our agent, so it means sampling rate of...
21 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Tracing Granularity can show in microsecond

We know that the smallest unit ini Instana tracing is <1ms. somehow, there is couple of technology that sensitive to performance under 1 microsecond units. So, we hope that Instana can provide tracing in microsecond units instead of showing <...
22 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted