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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Submitted

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.
5 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

RestCONF Protocol Support in Rapid Network Automation

I propose the addition of RestCONF protocol support within Rapid Network Automation. This enhancement has been requested by several telecommunications and large enterprise prospects. Implementing RestCONF support will enable the integration with n...
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Submitted

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Submitted

Add support for Redis setup in cluster mode

Add s upport for clustering in Redis in Instana collectors
29 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

Job Management Plugin needs to be able to rerun jobs in different Streams

For a very simple process that needs to rerun a job in the same stream this works fine. But the use of this would more likely be handled by a simple job rerun setting or maybe a recovery job. To make this far more useful the plugin should also be ...
30 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Allow for wildcards on time arguments in conman commands (or more commands)

Our company uses conman commands regularly in our automation to perform many tasks that we would otherwise do manually. As often as possible, we use variables or wild cards so that hard-coding isn't needed. In some cases, that is now allowed. One ...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

telnet monitoring using synthetic check

Add a new feature for telnet monitoring using the synthetic check.
4 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 4 Submitted

FTP monitoring in ace

In ACE, for many clients, we have numerous flows that receive input from files, especially via FTP. However, we have noticed that Instana is unable to trace these inputs. It would be beneficial to monitor this scenario as well.
25 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Direct Access to a Complete List of Successful and Failed Actions

To ensure transparency, Turbonomic should implement a comprehensive audit trail for all actions executed within the platform. This will allow clients, even during proof-of-value (POV) evaluations, to easily identify who performed the actions refle...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Submitted