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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?
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Customer defined encryption key for data at rest

Have the option for customers to defined their encryption key for data stored at rest on INSTANA's SaaS Backends. For example, an integration with IBM Key Protect for IBM Cloud could do that.
about 1 year ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Vmware Agent ITM version 07.30.03.00 up limit table KVM_TOPOLGY

TS008498905 2022-03-30 10:49:26 40 INFO: Inventory.processUpdate: Total count of monitored objects in the environment(10.113.52.212) is 3501. Data collection of Topology attribute group is disabled as it is supported to collect data for the maximu...
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Exclusive DMVPN modelling support with-in ITNM

Please refer this case for more details TS010340472
7 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Connection Object Server as a datasource to Impact/TIP through Cyber Ark

Hello, Our Company initiates a process to use username and password through cyber ark only. They ask if the application usernames and password our netcool infastructure use can go through cyber ark or not? For example - We are using impactadmin u...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Not under consideration

FR - Python sensor support for Tornado 6

At this moment instana python sensor it's only support Tornado bellow version 6.0.0 but we need to update and app that depends on Tornado 6.1 and we need the Instana monitoritation. It's possible add support for Tornado >= 6.0.0 to Instana Pyth...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 0 Future consideration

MQ Series Monitoring Agent: Include the RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Managers) support in ITCAM for Messaging agents.

The Monitoring team has been received a demand from MQ team about their new environment in the RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Managers). Usually the new environment is composed of 3 servers, with one service active and the others in stand-by. But, ...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration

if we add the job in expired stream while saving it should send / flash the warning message to operator.

It should flash a warning message in TDWC/CLI while saving the job in expired jobstream, There is high possibility to add a job inside an expired stream which will be happening globally on all TWS projects.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Logging add HTTP Header into the log parameters

Hello, Here is some infos about the request. We highly use custom headers to get contextual informations about HTTP calls . For instance device type, application version etc ..Currently we can filter these informations on the view Application> ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Logging Level Info

Hello, Today the feature 'Logs' provide only warning and error log levels.We would find it valuable to also have a log level info because it provides a lot of contextual infos. One thing to point out is that if log levels info would be tracked in ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Critical job should part of error handler layout

The batch operators need an indication in the error handler layout, which job is most critical, so troubleshooting can be started with that one. If two or more jobs are very close with latest start time, a critical path indicator is needed so oper...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release