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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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Support for podman on RHEL8 for Self-hosted backend server

At this point, we are not planning to add support for hosting the Instana backend with podman. The RHEL 8 docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module in RHEL 8 and some customers do not want to install docker-ce for RHEL 8 for t...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 12 Not under consideration

Standard edition without need Subdomains

We need the possibility to run instana without the need of Subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing DNS Settings
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

Ability to download Instana agents in Air-gapped Self hosted Standard Edition (K3S)

As of v287, the agent download fails in the self-hosted air-gapped standard edition. The only way is to go to internet and pull the latest agents for Instana agent repository OR mirror the repository to local environment. Given the access restrict...
26 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Needs more information

Add sizing to Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, please consider adding sizing capabilities to Instana dashboards. When instana is running it has all the information to estimate current resource use and calculate how much storage required for current load, when critical storage ...
29 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Change the Instana Logo on the Homepage and Login Page

Our customer would like to replace the IBM Instana logo on the homepage and login page with their own logo.
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Under review

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Bi-Directional Turbonomic Integration for Multiple Tenant Units

Currently the Bidirectional Turbonomic integration only caters for one Instana target within Turbonomic. In this customer's environment, Instana monitors several OpenShift clusters, some of which hosts multiple environments (dev/test/sit) within t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration