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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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Extend MQ events

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue Manager events that we need to monitor: "NOT_AUTHORIZED" "UNKNOWN_OBJECT" “Queue_Type_Error” “Default_Xmit_Queue_Type_Error” “Remote_Queue_Name_Error” “Transmission_Queue_Type_Error” “Transmission_...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Delivered

Add support for Ed25519 SSH keys in Discovery Credentials.

Add support for using Ed25519 SSH keys with Discovery Credentials using pki authentication.
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered

install LWA with a local system user that will not requires any password

Modify the install process for a LWA so it reqires no password to be input or the LWA can just interact with the Local System Account TS005072883
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Restrict access to Heap Dumps

Currently everyone who has access to a JVM infrastructure perspective in Instana can also create a heap dump from there. Heap dumps might contain sensitive information. This access to the heap dump implies a major security and compliance issue for...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

Allow for increases in SLI quota for Instana.

We have run into a hard limit for the number of SLIs that are able to be created in Instana. When we asked to have the limit increased, we were told by the Instana engineers that this isn't possible currently. Its a hard coded limit that isn't abl...
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

User preveilages on Events and Alerts

We need to know how to manage Permissions for user/group for: User able to create event on his infrastructure scope / zone. it means that user can create event with threshold for cpu for example on his authorized host zone ONLY. and he can not see...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered

Pre-requisites for OMEGAMON Instana Integration Proxy

Now OMEGAMON Instana Integration Proxy requires Kubernetes, but it is too tough to use it in our customer's environment because the workload for deployment and management is too heavy. Also about micro-k8S, it is not acceptable for our customer be...
9 months ago in Instana 1 Delivered

.NET support for AWS Lambda runtime

.NET is currently not supported in the AWS Lambda runtime for agent deployment. We are running a .NET Lambda application which requires tracing to be included in part of an Application perspective.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 3 Delivered

Add the ability to use external-secrets to the config for self-hosted POP

We do not want to put our Instana key in github and would like to be able to use external-secrets similar to how we do with the instana-agent.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Delivered

Export data comparison table

Hello, By performing a filter on our machines on the comparison table view. It would be interesting to be able to export all the machines that we see. This will allow us to use them for scripts or to transfer them Sincerely
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered