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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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LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

APM WebLogic Agent Transaction tracking to include "GridLink" DataSources

Currently Transaction tracking by WebLogic Agent doesn't support to monitor "GridLink" datasources and is limited to show only Generic datasources in JDBC Connections. Customers are intrested to get details w.r.t GridLink too.
over 2 years ago in Instana 3 Not under consideration

ISM protocols in Instana

We would like to add ISM functionalities from the ISM agent (ITM and APM) to the Instana. It is necessary for us to have these functionalities so we can propose to our current customers to transfer from the ITM/APM solutions to Instana. Several of...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Future consideration

Sequence number for event submited jobs

I have lately set up some event triggered jobs. It is a predefined job that will be submitted each time another job matching a certain name pattern is submitted. The event action looks like this: SBJ P1OPS003#DBO_U_BUYPASS_PRIZE_PAYOUT_CONTROL AS ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Creation of subgroups in APM UI

Hi, Customer is intrested to create sub groups under "My Applications" or "Groups" and want to group servers. For Ex: First Level - WebLogic Servers Second Level - Staging Servers, Production Servers Third Level - Under Staging - Service 1, Server...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Required documentation on 502 Bad Gateway error if uploading a large file to the FileObserver is slow or interrupted

When setting up a FileObserver a file can be uploaded with prior data. If this is being uploaded and is delayed or interrupted a 502 Bad Gateway message can be displayed. No further information is given. Documentation explaining that this error ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Is a defect

Messagebus Probe WebHook should respond with WWW-Authenticate entry in header for authentication

As defined here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Authentication : "RFC 7235 defines the HTTP authentication framework, which can be used by a server to challenge a client request, and by a client to provide authentication informa...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Enhance EUM to include Session Replay

We have application teams who are using Dynatrace's Session Replay feature. To move to Instana they are requiring this feature.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

MessageBus probe to configure tokenEndpointURI port different from subscribeRequestURI port

We have a device to use different port for tokenEndpointURI and subscribeRequestURI . Currently MessageBus probe can not handle this. We would like to see MessageBus probe able to configure the different port for tokenEndpointURI and subscribeRequ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Topology Manager Observer for Ericson Software Defined Infrastructure

Customer RFP to replace Ericson CNEX is asking for a service assurance solution that includes events, topology and the only missing part is topology.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration