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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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allow users to comment "configuration elements"

please help users to document configured elements inside Instana with comment/description-fields on at least following configuration dialogs: - Create Application Perspective - Configure Services - Configure Endpoints - Access Control – Roles - Ac...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered

Context-sensitive tag picker on the infrastructure map

please make the tag-picker on the infrastructure map context-sensitive: With an active dynamic focus filter it should only show tags that are defined on matching agents.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

CentOS8 support

Currently CentOS8 is not listed as a supported OS for on-prem on Instana official documentation.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Provide Infra metrics for custom dashboard in Self-managed Dashboard

In the custom dashboard, Infra and Platform metrics is in "coming soon" status long time. My financial client can't adopt SaaS Instana because it is overseas region. Could you provide infra and platform capability also for the self-managed enviro...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Delivered

Support Oracle Linux

We are trying to set up a PoC for Instana. The customer has Oracle Linux which they say is basically RedHat Enterprise Linux. Do we have the capability to set up an on prem backend with Oracle Linux?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Delivered

change the value of Nginx configuration "server_names_hash_bucket_size" to larger than 128

the value of nginx configuration "server_names_hash_bucket_size" is fixed with 128, which will cause the gateway pod failed to start when the length of baseDomain is larger than 128 with following error. # kubectl logs gateway-67965f476b-l8f45 -n ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Need to Implement Strong encryption/encoding mechanism

The application uses weak base 64 encoding for sensitive parameters. Base 64 encoding can be easily decoded and the sensitive details can be seen in clear text. It is recommended to implement strong encryption/encoding mechanism by the security team.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Add Active Directory referral support to TEMS SDS client

Enables customers to benefit from the TEMS SDS security client for validating both the TEMS & TEPS login credentials where Active Directory is configured to use the LDAP referral feature. Currently the LDAP referral feature is not supported i...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Delivered

Configurable ReplicaFactor for Kafka and Replica/Sharding for ElasticSearch in K8s Operator

customer has deployed instana in production environment, has deployed instana agents on several hundreds K8S nodes. the customer IT department is heavily using instana as their observability platform Architecture of Instana Deployment: the instana...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 4 Delivered

Self service to create agentkey for Instana Tenant/Unit in Onprem

In self-hosted k8s based environment, customers would want to split their thousands of agent hosts into different tenants/units. It works like APM as SaaS but just for on premise. For each unit, a set of unique key are required per Instana support...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered