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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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HANA DB Sensor - Generate Event for Archive Log Backup

Generate Event for Archive Log Backup
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

HANA DB Sensor - Display built in Events for DBA Jobs

Display built in Events for DBA Jobs
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

SAP ABAP Sensor - Display outbound ABAP Connections

Display outbound ABAP Connections
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

Support for AWS Cognito User Pool Identity Provider (IdP)

We are in discussion with potential customers that want support for AWS Congnito User Pools. We already support several IdPs and this is a very popular one we currently don't support. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/cogni...
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Confirmation Dialog Box Settings

We would like for there to be a confirmation dialog box upon clicking the 'Execute Action' button. We understand that there is by default, but it can disabled via user preference. We would prefer for Site Administrators to be able to configure the...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Eventviewer tool - access criteria "FilterName"

At the moment you can only control the access criteria of event viewer / event list tools by membership of user groups and the class of events (or fields value with a conversion in alerts.conversions and limited to = and != comparison operators). ...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

param.FilterSQL / param.FilterName as available runtime parameter for SQL tools

In order to limit the action of a tool to the event shown in an event list / event viewer it would be great to have the filter name or even better the filter SQL as runtime parameter available for SQL tools ( and it would be nice to have it availa...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Azure DDoS Protection event

A customer asked to add Azure DDoS Protection as an event in Instana. The use case is that is there is an DDOS attack and most traffic are blocked but not all. The traffic that gets through might cause some issues on the application and it would b...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Find Topology resources following the arrow direction and render them on page

In topology view, client want to see an ability to view resource with all "child resources" following specific direction arrows. e.g. down arrow (has) and not up arrow (runsOn). Currently AIOps Topology has "Get Neighbours" option which shows all ...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration