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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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Provide a way to disable side car action creation

Today, Turbonomic create automatically groups for sidecar workloads and a policy with recommend only actions. Since Turbonomic can't apply those changes, it's just informational. The problem is customer has thousands of actions that is polluting t...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Implement Agent Request Buffering to Prevent Metric Outages

Dear Instana Product Team, I would like to propose the implementation of a request buffering mechanism within the Instana agent to mitigate and avoid metric outages during periods of network instability or high latency. Problem Statement Currently...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter

Title: Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter Detail: We want Instana to capture IMS calls which are maded from client side with WM EntireX Adapter. We would like that client adapter to be supported from version 10.7.0.21.1826 and above.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Encryption of credentials in configuration

It would be desirable if the credentials configured in Alert Channels were not displayed in plain text. This makes it possible for anyone with access to Instana to go into the configuration and see the credentials (username and password) in plain ...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

monitoring specific to kubeapiserver, kube-controll-manager and scheduler

Monitoring specific to kubeapiserver, kube-controll-manager and scheduler. PMR (TS016949061)
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Planned for future release

Support OracleDB for Golang

Currently our agent support most of the general databases, would be great if we can support OracleDB so it valued customers to see insightful traces. At the mean time, Dynatrace is also releasing the support for Go-Oracle-connector libraries.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Provide a means of identifying/managing policies with no/empty scope groups

As a user I would like the ability to identify policies that no longer have a scope group associated or groups that no longer have any members, so that I can ensure my automation is being enforced correctly as well as reduce "clutter".
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Collect kubernetes metrics health SLIs

Since Kubernetes 1.26, you can configure Service Level Indicator (SLI) metrics for the Kubernetes components binaries. Once you enable them, Kubernetes will expose the SLI metrics in the /metrics/slis endpoint https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Allow HTTP actions to be created with insecure API endpoint

When creating a HTTP action, if you enter a API endpoint that beings with just http, not https, you get the following error message: "This field must be a valid https URL or start with a parameter of type 'string'. Either allow http endpoints (ver...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Disable and make selection of the Verify Host - Jobtype Job Stream Submission flag optional

Verify the possibility of Disable and make selection of the Verify Host - Job type Job Stream Submission flag optional. We currently have customers using version 9.4 and have set this option which is default when creating new jobs. From version 10...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration