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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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k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Remove the first 3 characters currently rendered to denote the group in 'scope-based' searching

When clicking the first time on "scope-based" and enable the second sorting on "temporal" the alarms with temporal grouping are not sorted at all (even when hitting it multiple times). The Development Team has indicated there's a plan for a tweak ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Export list of Tables in Apptio

Would like to export list of tables and folder information as Excel, csv or tab data. For creating monthly IT operation manual, it would be easier to have list of table in data. Sometimes when creationg technical reference document, objects such a...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Add support for GCP SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale a GCP SQL instance.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Sensor version and info per API

Currently it is not possible to query the version of a sensor being used by an agent. For many on-prem customers, the ability to get information programatically as seen in the screenshot (Sensor Info via the Agent Dashboard) will help automate tas...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Use traditional Netcool OMNIbus icon in Connectors

Netcool is a legend! Give credit to its history and give us back our beloved Netcool OMNIbus icon. The large user base will be pleased and grateful.
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support Amlen for Metrics and Traces

Currently, the MQTT Broker Amlen is not recognized as a technology by Instana. It would be great to have a sensor (as well as dashboard, built-in metrics, ...) for Amlen. Amlen provides most important metrics via REST API. In addition, Instana doe...
9 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration