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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 Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Add User and Domain to Explore Area of Workload Designer.

Add User and Domain objects to the Explore Area in the Workload Designer. When opening the TWSd DWC Workload Design in v10.1, the Explore area displays boxes for objects listing how many there are of each object. You can easily click on any one of...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

retrieve more than 5 infrastructure metrics from API

We want to retrieve infrastructure metrics through API "//api/infrastructure-monitoring/metrics", but it's result only has 5 metrics. It must request api many times if we want to retrieve whole metrics of infrastructure. So, I suggest to this api ...
10 months ago in Instana / API-C 1 Future consideration

Add Terraform Support for zCentric Agent and DWC

Simplify configuration and setup of Zcentric Agents and DWC on the Cloud
10 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Instana should support memory profiling for dotnet core applications

at present dot net core applications can show CPU profiling only. I could not have a view of memory profiles. that is why have to reply on manual profiling. Please provide this integration. One of out app is showing continuos increasing memory thanks
10 months ago in Instana / .NET / Azure 1 Not under consideration

Support apache http client 5.X

The apache http client version 5.x has now been released for 3 years and is meeting a large adoption as a replacement for the 4.x client. Instana should add support for this client.
10 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Planned for future release

Need to understand the best recommendation on how TADDM needs to be integrated with JIRA ITSM or IBM Control Desk needs to be integrated with JIRA ITSM for best possible use of the CMDB and asset management

Currently customer is planning to use IBM solution for discovery and Configuration/asset management though their ITSM solution is JIRA. So looking for the best possible recommendation from IBM side on the integration architecture with JIRA ITSM.
10 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of the "No responses received for > 10 seconds" value

Request to allow the configuration of the default 10 second value when an agent is disconnected from the SAAS instana Dashboard. We have experienced on occasion network convergences or brief unexpected outages at which point our Instana's Agents l...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Is a defect

K8-Deployment Environment Variables from Kubernetes Secrets should not be visible in process Environment Variables

Introduction: --------------- Our enterprise company uses instana as a shared open platform for all our developers and teams. We recently noticed that some of the teams have visible secrets in the process views.Also, we use strict secret Filtering...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

Custom-dashboard filter

Hi, Currently a filter needs to be set on each widget of a custom-dashboard. It would be easier and more efficient if a filter can be set on dashboard level. Thanks for considering this feature.
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration