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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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Handling autogenerated columns such as .Count

When transferring data from one environment to another via Datalink - table to table, the autogenerated columns (ex: ".Count") are also transferred.  This generates an error that can't be eliminated as it would not be displayed in the Import ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Update kubernetes certificate when an instance is upgraded (OVA only issue)

I recently had an issue with a large financial customer where I made a license change and it caused the instance to show that none of the targets were validated any longer. After some troubleshooting, I found a certificate had expired. We worked w...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 9 Not under consideration

Instana console showing servers in offline state

There happend a case where a few servers had instana agent stopped running and they stopped showing up on the console infrastructure monitoring. There should be a way in the instana console where we can see the server being shown in the map or in ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Extend Topology Manager to be able to run Remote Observers for network discovery

With the introduction of Net-Disco and App-Disco plug-ins in ASM v1.1.8 (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS9LQB_1.1.8/ProductOverview/r_asm_whatsnew.html#r_asm_whatsnew) , its not possible to run all components on single host as it wou...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Kafka topic lag data is unusable in its current state

The way that kafka topic lag data is represented within Instana makes it virtually unusable. The reason is that each topic is listed independently. There is no way to apply general rules to the data. For example, if I try to create an Event agains...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

AIOps license utilisation in UI

Customers need to see the AIOps license utilisation, number of managed devices, client devices, and logs processed in GB. This will help customer for budgeting next yeat license purchase.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Extend time window to more than 120 min

Hello, Currently, when creating an event with built-in host metrics, the time window is limited to 120 min We received the following request, which is not currently possible with this limitation : - trigger an alert when a filesystem is > 70% f...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Message Bus Probe: token with kafka topic name in rulesfile

Today it is possible to add multiple topics for a given probe installation. However, there is no token available in the rulesfile to check from which topic a given message came from. This means, if I have a common kafka server with topics that req...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration