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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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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Filter on exit endpoints (Capture http headers for exit calls)

Hello, We are facing an issue due to restrictions in Instana. We can't get contextual informations on endpoints going to non instrumented applications.The consequence is that we can't manage incidents the same way if they come from an internal or ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Calico BGP routing support

No description provided
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Support Correlation Information from NOKIA NSP within NSP Probe for Kafka

System: Netcool Probe/Omnibus/DashCurrently there is no correlation information delivered by the NOKIA Kafka Topic "NSP-Fault". For the future NOKIA intends to add these information into the topic to have the already available correlation informat...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Web site monitoring to be able to handle Multi-factored Authentication (MFA)

All of our web sites are MFA enabled.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring of Oracle E-Business application

Monitoring Oracle E-Business is not as simple as monitoring a java app with a single jar. It is difficult for the Instana agent to attach to jvm for Oracle E-Business. Some customers desire to monitor their Oracle EBS. Therefore, it would be nice ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Secure files in /tmp/.instana

Original issue description: Our security policy does not accept files with permission to write and execute inside the directory "/tmp", as INSTANA creates this type of file in "/tmp/.instana" we have several issues of vulnerability. We verified in...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

TWS job and job stream char limit increase

pmr 744070,082,00 This PMR addresses the question about the jobstream character limit. I found that a request has been made to change the character limit for both jobstream and job names from 16 and 40 to 40 and 64 respectively. I tested the jobst...
almost 13 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration

support com.instana.secrets filtering on HTTP cookie headers

The HTTP Cookie header is useful to capture for debugging purposes. However, for security in depth it would be beneficial to be able to mask certain cookies, e.g. the login/session cookie.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Security and Compliance / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Option to disable CTRL-F (freeze) in Event Viewer

In in Event Viewer there is a shortcut for freezing the event list. The shortcut (CTRL-F) is normally used for finding stuff in the browser. This causes the user to freeze the event list by mistake, which causes them to miss alarms.We want the opt...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Event Reader Service should warn users on save if a field used in the Event Reader Filter is not in the selected fields

The request is for adding a warning option to Omnibus EventReader service when users are triying to make changes that will affect restriction filter. The solution should be implemented on Impact 7.1 and it was discussed with Impact L2 engineers wh...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration