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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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Filter conditions should be private / shared by certain permissions

Instana users can "save, edit, and delete filters". https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-filtering-dynamic-focus And it is 'shared' with all users automatically. But if a customer plans to accept Instana corporat...
18 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

We need the Event for ACE Integration Node offline and should be able to generate separate Alerts for PROD and NON-PROD.

We tried with SystemRule "Offline Event Detection" and Dynamic Focus Query "entity.selfType: IntegrationNode". This is generating Event/Alert when any of the Integration Nodes is down. But we are looking for separate Event/Alert for PROD and NON-P...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

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...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Under review

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories. Want capabilities that are similar to ITM v6. Customers use this capability to indicate whether their applications are performing properly. For example, if there are too many fi...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 1

Instana needs to send notifications/alerts when active directory certificates expire in OpenShift on Z

Without this notification, it's a manual effort to keep checking for expired certificates
18 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

create API token for particular Application Perspective.

how can we restrict API tokens which we create in Instana UI to a specific deployment/namespace in k8? i.e if we use a token for 1 deployment we should be able to check or retrive data only for that particular deployment.
19 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if Transport has failed

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if Transport has failed
19 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if a configuration change has occurred

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if a configuration change has occurred
19 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

SAP ABAP Sensor - Display RFC Connection Errors

SAP ABAP Sensor - Display RFC Connection Errors
19 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted