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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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Option to disable the fragmentation of tables present under tempdb database

Related to PMR case number TS008818511 The problem is locking on the “tempdb” due to checking the fragmentation of a table or view Per customer requirement, the data collection of only fragmentation should be skipped for tempdb database.
almost 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

Need to Implement Strong encryption/encoding mechanism

The application uses weak base 64 encoding for sensitive parameters. Base 64 encoding can be easily decoded and the sensitive details can be seen in clear text. It is recommended to implement strong encryption/encoding mechanism by the security team.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Add Active Directory referral support to TEMS SDS client

Enables customers to benefit from the TEMS SDS security client for validating both the TEMS & TEPS login credentials where Active Directory is configured to use the LDAP referral feature. Currently the LDAP referral feature is not supported i...
almost 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Delivered

RBAC UI - Ability to 'Select All' when selecting Product Areas, k8s etc

As an Instana administrator, I would like the ability to 'Select All' before or after filtering when setting up Groups so that I easily set up Groups with access to a large number of product areas. (Currently it is possible to filter but then you ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Delivered

Make Website Metrics available in SLO Widget

Make Websites metrics available in SLO Widgets. Stats like "First Contentful Paint", "Page Views", "Time to First Byte", and "OnLoad Time". Currently only Application perspectives are supported.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

SLO based alerts

We think it should be possible to create alerts based on defined SLIs and SLOs. Currently, it's not possible to alert if something is consuming an available error budget too fast over a certain time or that we consumed the error budget already com...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

#EMEA #SPGI Add support for PHP 8.1

Durign a PoC with a public transport agency in Spain we have discovered that Instana does not support PHP 8.1, most of their develepment is based on PHP frameworks so not having this tracing capability for this version of PHP does not allow them t...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 8 Delivered

Add Statsd Metric to TOP List

Trying to add Stasd metric in custom dashboard. I am able to find these set of metrics under Infrastructure and platforms for time series widget but unable to find it for Top List
almost 3 years ago in Instana 2 Delivered

Configurable ReplicaFactor for Kafka and Replica/Sharding for ElasticSearch in K8s Operator

customer has deployed instana in production environment, has deployed instana agents on several hundreds K8S nodes. the customer IT department is heavily using instana as their observability platform Architecture of Instana Deployment: the instana...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 4 Delivered

Instana use case for IBMi monitoring

Dear Instana team, We would like to have this use case supported by Instana please: We would like to monitor if some critical IBMi jobs (that we would specify by name) is running or not I have researched the options provided out of the box by Inst...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Delivered