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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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Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Monitor subjobs

To be able to monitor subjobs. For example in the bank end of day process, the main job will have many subjobs. In this case the user of the subjobs can be the same with the user of the main jobs, but the jobName and jobNumber for the subjobs can ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Wildcard to specify activeJobs:jobs & inactiveJobs

In the activeJobs:jobs section and inactiveJobs section, currently we need to specify job number. Customer need option to not specify the job number or to use wildcard, because job number can change all the time and customer cant keep on changing ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Have ability to set scope as per endpoint for adaptive threshold type

We have observed that when threshold type is adaptive the scope cannot be set to per endpoint, however the option is available when threshold type is static. Need this feature to be available in Instana as it is supported in AppDynamics. This will...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 7 Not under consideration

Parking support for serverless service, like fargate

Currently, AWS serverless service, Fargate cannot be optimized. However, customer think it's useful just to be able to control that suspend for fargate service. *Currently, it is troublesome to control with scripts. Extend Parking functionality to...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Need ability to properly discover device links when ifStack mib not enabled on device

We need the ability to get correct link information between devices in our environment
about 2 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Needs more information

Support for Netfox Library in iOS Mobile Instrumentation

Hi team, Our client has reported that they aren't able to monitor their iOS application using Instana due to a conflict with the Netfox library. The Netfox library is currently not supported by Instana, causing the application to block API calls w...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Allow simultaneous execution of multiple actions per GCP VM

Currently there is a limitation in Turbonomic for any GCP actions that are multiple actions (not just volume actions) belonging to the same VM. They cannot be executed simultaneously, and they need to be executed one at a time. Allowing for multip...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Under review

We are looking for the oAuth authentication at ObjectServer level. Refer the IBM Case for the same request TS016022219

As per our company standards, we need to have the oAuth authentication
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Logs of span rate limiting should be write in INFO level in agent.log to detect it worked.

Instana manual explains as following; > If you see logs like Suppressed spans due to high number of short or Discarded span due to queue overflow in the agent log, it means that the Java tracer experienced heavy load on span processing. The des...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 2 Planned for future release