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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?
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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ProcessID missing in joblogs for windows processes

CASE ID - TS003942595During investigations to identify long running issues of a job, we found that Windows ProcessID is not supplied back to the Job Log, Yet for Linux/Unix processes the ID is provided. This makes tracing the process thats causing...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook, so that you don't have to open the entire list of IPs given by the instant support according to the region and then run the risk of adding more IPs without inform us and that the alerts do n...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / SRE 1 Not under consideration

metric or api endpoint for sent alerts

Currently there's only a fuzzy way to get the amount of sent out alerts, and even only for smart alerts. As alerting is a very crucial and important feature (when used), it should be easier to figure out how many alerts had been sent in the past (...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Ability for RBAC to enable Objects on Team Scope

Use-case: To allow more flexible rules for allowing people access to specific entities it would be great to instead of selecting the entities (app perspectives, namespace, etc.) one by one, to allow a query builder approach in which we can use log...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

How Standby Instance of TSRM Gateway update issues-( HA for TSRM gateway)

Hi Support, We are instantiating new Cold Standby Instance for TSRM Gateway to have resiliency to avoid single point of failure . If Primary Gateway goes down, secondary instance should pick up for the processing, we are managing the failure of Ga...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Cloud Pack for Watson AIOps: Streaming Telemetry

Megaport Executive and Management team expecting, IBM needs to deliver telemetry on existing systems, which is the future of monitoring and want to replace it with an upcoming project of any legacy 20+ years old monitoring systems like SNMP, while...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

HashiCorp integration with IWS for secure connection between DB and IWS master

There should be a way to intigrate HashiCorp with IWS .We saw security team in organation asking to use Hashicorp to secure the connection/authentication between IWS master and oracle database as we are using XML file to pass password/Username (ev...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Script to create a group of VMs who's percentile CPU utilization is under a specified threshold

Citigroup reqeusted for a cusmtom script to create a group of VMs who's percentile CPU utilization is under a specified threshold. This should also enable downloading a csv of the same members as well as selecting other commodities like Mem
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Field Integrations 0

Specify request & limits of pod Leader Elector

In https://github.com/instana/helm-charts/blob/main/instana-agent/values.yaml the Instana agent has defined cpu & memory requests and limits, see line 89.However, for the leader elector there are none. As a consequence the leader elector takes...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 7 Functionality already exists

Increase the file dependency length limitation which is currently as The combination of the path of the file and the qualifiers cannot exceed 145 characters, and the name of the file cannot exceed 28 characters.

Increase the file dependency length limitation which is currently as The combination of the path of the file and the qualifiers cannot exceed 145 characters, and the name of the file cannot exceed 28 characters. Due to the above limitation the fi...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration