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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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EUM Crash Reporting - programmatic creation of crash report configuration via Instana API

We need a way to programatically e.g. by calling the Instana api setup a new crash report configuration.We were told that instana api does not currently support this function
about 10 hours ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Lack of error messaging

Several reports when fails results in ambiguous error message and at times grammatically incorrect, need error definitions and what they mean for awareness.
1 day ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

LFA support for Windows 2025

A customer requested that LFA be applied to Windows 2025, but when we checked with support, we were told that LFA is not currently supported for Windows 2025. Please let us know the date when IBM will complete LFA operation verification and begin ...
2 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Submitted

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
13 days ago in Instana / Agent 3 Submitted

Display Hourly Data

Having this additional level of granularity would help to improve analysis of trends and outliers. The instructions to pull the AWS CUR data into Cloudability specifies that we should select hourly granularity, so the data should already exist, it...
about 6 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

To be able to define custom roles

To be able to define adjust more in details users permissions.
about 12 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Missing endpoints for logs on Instana API Service Catalogue

we have internal client's looking for logs search by API endpoints and its a missing content into Intana service catalogue. Instana API docs
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

The Job run history query on DWC monitor workload/jobs panel is not sorted DWC.

The users find it very difficult to search and compare historical runs of a certain job. The actual start date and time on the list are not in order. Can the query have an Order by Actual Start ASC statement to have the result in ascending order
about 13 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
about 14 hours ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Remove 'Utilisation Data' radio button for non-AWS customers

A number of our consumers use Cloudability as a central source of data but are left dispondant becuase they try to use the 'Utilisation Data' radio button under metrics and dimensions. As we are an Azure consumer and the Utilisation Data is only a...
about 15 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted