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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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Add an integration with a source code management/testing tools such as GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins to measure Four Key Metrics(DORA Metrics)

Background: In today's software development landscape, achieving high performance in delivering software is crucial for gaining a competitive edge. DORA(DevOps Reaserch and Assessment) Metric, also known as the Four Key Metrics, provide a standard...
4 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
26 days ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Call Turbonomic API using SSO/SAML credential/token (not local user)

We can only execute APIs using a local user or Oauth. So, we have 2 problems: a) local user can't be protected like an SSO user (like when using Azure AD for conditional access); b) Oauth authentication in Turbo for APIs makes the Turbonomic an Oa...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 3 Planned for future release

List of events that triggered alerts

It would be beneficial to be able to retrieve a list of all events that have triggered alerts within a specified time frame. Currently, there is no direct way to filter alerts based on which ones were triggered by what events. Adding this fe...
2 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Concurrent Sessions Enabled

Background: Concurrent session enabled refers to a feature or setting within an application or system that allows a user to be logged in and active from multiple devices or locations simultaneously. In other words, a user can have multiple concurr...
2 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Adding metrics in Instana to monitor Transform Object for elastic search

Transform Object is one of the key components in elastic search. Currently Instana does not have any capability to monitor transform object.
3 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Ability to close connections better from PostgreSQL blocks

At this time, a workflow does not have the ability to directly close a PostgreSQL connect from a PostgreSQL block. As far as I am aware, they instead remain open until they time out, which is typically 10 seconds or so. This enhancement would add ...
4 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

Add AWS Neptune Service monitoring

Instana AWS sensor has already good amount AWS services to be monitored and I would like to request to add monitoring support for the AWS Neptune service.
5 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Make Object Types Searchable by OID or indicator name

Right now if someone comes to me and asks me to enable crasSVCNumSessions / .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.392.1.3.35 it's kind of a nightmare. Under Object Types I cannot search by OID or via the indicator type "crasSVCNumSessions". The best I can currently do...
11 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

[Turbonomics] - Chef Automate

As a part of using RNA with Turbonomics, we would like to integrate with Chef as a part of the process. https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/ OpenAPI Spec: https://docs.chef.io/automate-api-docs/all-apis.swagger.json
9 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review