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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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Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

Visibility of sensitive data

From the transactional portal of a client that performs a query to the iSeries and is displayed in Instana, from the “analytics” functionality some sensitive data is evidenced that must be filtered. It was detected that from a call to the database...
8 months ago in Instana / .NET 1 Planned for future release

ITP Automated Notifications - Ability to change their verbiage and logo

At every main phase of an IT Planning plan (opening, closing, etc.), communications are sent to cost center and department owners. In order for these emails to be more impactful to customers and for them to not be categorized as spam (or even as p...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Update the email address from stan@instana to instana@instana.com

The email stan@instana.com is not service account and conflict with a user named Stan in the organization.
4 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Needs more information

Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release

Historical Dashborad for incidentes and alerts is requiered

A standard task in IT Operations teams is to report and analyze incidents monthly to create improvement plans, tracking and to get statistical analysis. Is requiered to have the ability to create dashboard containing all the incidents and alerts i...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

More detailed error messages in Datalink Financials

A similar enhancement idea already exists for Datalink Classic, but the error messages for Datalink Financial are also inscrutable. Example: Failed connector details: "Error while calling Async Post API. Code: 500 , Message: Error message rece...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Under review

Authentication with OMNIbus jconnect only supports passwords up to 30 characters

Customer is using the ObjectServer for authentication of users logging into WebGUI/DASH. The password for the users is coming over an LDAP-integration of the ObjectServer. For users that do not have OMNIbus client libraries and due to password siz...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters in addition to FCI Clusters

many organization utilize AlwaysOn instead of FCI because AlwaysOn does not require shared storage.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

AIOps new data connector for AWS CloudWatch Logs

AWS CloudWatch has logs as well as metrics for applications which are collected by its own ETL services. So, in the case of Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps is installed on AWS, it can be a huge benefit for our AIOps customers to leverage CloudWatch Log...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration