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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?
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

ALLOW ServiceNow API to allow connection to IWS plugin using a Proxy

TS013706895 I’m currently working on IWS 95.06 to ServiceNow integration using the ServiceNow Plugin. using DWC The ServiceNow instance we use at our site is in the Cloud . We therefore are required to go through the YBS proxy server to connect to...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Change/Enhance client behaviour for Instana EUM to prevent network peaks

With current eum config. potential network issues/overload are possible (see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-mobile-app-monitoring-faq#what-happens-for-users-with-bad-internet-or-network-connections )Pl...
6 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Support for adding a Promethues target protected by user and token through prometurbo/turbodiff

Enterprise clients usually have access to prometheus api protected by authetication with user and token. At the moment connection with such target fails with the following log in turbodiff pod: 418044 1 discovery_client.go:142] Metric endpoints [h...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 2 Planned for future release

Indicate the reason for alert (e.g. instana-builtin, instana-custom-rule, etc.)

When an alert is fired, we never know its source. Would be great to have in the Alert itself an information of where it's coming from (smart alert, builtin, custom event, etc.)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Provide associated risk for Reconfigure to add licensed host actions

As a user I would like the ability to observe the reason that Turbonomic is recommending to add/reconfigure a new licensed host, so that I can better understand the impact/outcomes of reconfiguring to add a new licensed host.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Implement capacity adjustability for active-active consistent resize groups

If we have a group of 2 active-active vms that are running at 80% capacity and one fails over all traffic to the other, we would exceed utilization capacity. We need to be able to configure this capacity limit for scaling purposes in these scenari...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0

MFT file transfers should report successful or failed

When a MFT file transfer has completed, the Instana dashboards does not report whether it was successful or failed; it is only reported 'Completed' by the coordination queue manager and the file transfer dashboards. However, when an event fires fo...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Add 'Job Name' to MFT metrics

File transfers are tracked using their 'Transfer ID' in Instana, but this transfer ID is a random string. Our customer creates file transfers with a specific job name, and he needs the transfers to be identified in Instana using their job name. So...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 3 Future consideration