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When SSO is enabled, feature to send invite email to add users should be disabled

Once SSO is enabled, in order to get access to application users need to be part of AD security group. But if any user (even outside the organization) is sent invite to join Instana, he/she can create his/her own password and can login to the appl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

ObjectServer HADR feature required to use failover pair as DASH/WebGUI HA source

Along with OMNIbus Core 8.1.0.24, DASH 3.1.1.9 and OMNIbus WebGUI 8.1.0.21 an ObjectServer can be used as DASH HA database source.Unfortunately only a single ObjectServer instance can be configured as a source which will be again a single point of...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

Kafka connection using username and password

It would be very useful to have the possibility for the agent to connect to kafka instances using username and password. This feature would help for better audit checks and security.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Retrigger open events after a maintenance window

The use of a maintenance window is to prevent events/issues/alerts during a period which systems, transactions or metrics are expected to go outside the normal range of values/behavior. After the maintenance window, the event/alerts/smart alert sh...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Improve the ITNM mustgather script and provide in the code with future fixpack releases

Currently the itnm_data.pl mustgather script is provided in a technote available for download here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/collect-data-ibm-tivoli-network-manager-ip We would like to see this included in the code so that it is available...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Retain slicer selections when changing currency

Currently, when a user has slicers/columns selected and then change the reporting currency, all of their selections are reset. It would be great if this did not happen and the slicer/picker selections were retain. Same idea raised here for ITP b...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Delivered

support requests routed by the Apache Sling

Requests routed by the Apache Sling is not properly handled by the Java Trace plugin. We have noticed that Instana is capturing Apache Sling calls as erroneous calls. We have raised a support ticket with Instana support and the suggestion was to r...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 11 Delivered

GraphQL Support for ScienceLogic Integration

This idea would be to add GraphQL support to the ScienceLogic Integration, to enable users to run queries and mutations just like they would on ScienceLogic: https://docs.sciencelogic.com/12-1-0/Content/Web_Content_Dev_and_Integration/GraphQL_API/...
4 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Delivered

Add OpEx and CapEx contracts in IT Planning Contracts tab

For our budget administrators, it is necessary to properly populate and organize their contracts tab in IT Planning.  By adding the functionality to allow for having both OpEx and CapEx contracts (and not just one or the other) they would be ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Monitoring Tibco BW - metrics

Hi, Based on Request #24197 and Request #24185 Tibco BW (https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-businessworks) is not supported by Instana. We have all our business logic there and right now we do not have any way to monitor or trace it. Business wo...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 4 Delivered