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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 Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
10 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Object Type Utilization Metrics | Managing Object Licenses for Cluster

A capability to identify which object types are being used the most in your environment would spearhead administrative actions to reduce or reevaluate object types existing in large environments. If an object type is not found anywhere in the clus...
10 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
10 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

the process to update the SSL certificate needs to be better supported by the documentation

Customers (not just this one) have spent HOURS in VI editing the yaml file trying to get the cert to work. This will reduce customer frustration and improve the feeling towards our product. The current documentation (which is very good ) is here -...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration

Instana Azure sensor should support proxy configuration

Instana Azure sensor should allow to configure proxy. Exactly the same approach should be taken as for the AWS sensor described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-amazon-web-services-aws#through-agent-confi...
10 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

New functionality in Tejas NMS for Event Loss occurred/cleared Notification

Dear team, Section 2.2.3.3 of the attached document refers to Notification for "Event Loss occurred/cleared Notification" Following is the description of functionality: NMS will send the Event Loss occurred/cleared event in case of the following s...
19 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Instana needs to support AutoTrace for OpenResty pod

Instana declares the support tracing for 3scale's OpenResty container. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-nginx#other-supported-information But its support is limited for the manual instrumentat...
2 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 2 Future consideration

Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
30 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Large resource statuses to load a small subset of status event and allow user to page between them to improve performance. So if a resource has more than 30 (user configurable) statuses against it, it would load the first 30 and provide an option to page between additional pages containing the next 30 etc.

Currently if a resource has lots of statuses against them then opening the status view can sit there for ages before loading or giving up and throwing an error. By limiting the number shown and allowing the user to step through additional status r...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add an "at least" option to go up to maximum when scaling up and down to minimum when scaling down

Today, Turbonomic calculates the desired sizing of a VM and then generates an action to go there. Currently if there's a minimum set in a policy, Turbonomic could just discard the action if the Desired State is below the minimum and then not resiz...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration