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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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Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

The NOI included OpenLDAP should allow authentication against a local repository as well to one or more remote LDAP repos in parallel

The NOI included OpenLDAP does only support standalone OR proxy mode, but not both in parallel. Common OpenLDAP implementations do allow this hybrid mode easily. Especially technical users like impactadmin are often not allowed in LDAP repos, only...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
5 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Planned for future release

Display IP Address on Comparison Table

On comparison table, user can gather the overview condition of host utility, with hostname as its identifier. However, to validate and further troubleshoot the host condition, user will logon to the server by using IP address. Therefore knowing th...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0 Planned for future release

UI/UX - Single Search for all Entity Types

Be able to put in any entity type or group name, policy into a single search field rather than a side menu to pick if you are searching a VM or Storage devices etc.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

User onboarding dialog requires selecting preferred timezone which is limited/outdated. Provide a means to customize.

We have customers in a wide variety of geos and tailoring to their needs is necessary and useful.
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Use native AWS memory metrics without renaming so that AWS Users can view Memory Metrics in AWS CloudWatch Resource Health View.

A Business application team requires the use of the AWS CloudWatch Resource Health view. The Resource Health view requires the native AWS metric names which conflicts with the Turbonomic requirement to rename the metrics. Change the way that the T...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 0 Future consideration