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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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Support for .Net from datadog

Ability to have application context for .Net applications
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 11 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.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Availability Check of an SAP JAVA NetWeaver Instance and the necessary metrics

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored: Java System Availability (check the https://<<saphostname>>:<<Port>>/startPage) Java-System HTTP-Avilability (check the https://<<saphostname>>:<<P...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Delivered

Multi node deployment model support for on-premise OSS K8s platform other than OpenShift.

We need official support for on-premise OSS(Open Source Software = open source upstream Kubernetes) K8s deployment model. (K8s CNCF compliant, compatible with AKS/EKS/GKE). *Users are free to deploy it by referring to the steps below, but official...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 3 Delivered

Envoy proxy default address/port and sensor configuration

Preface: Currently monitoring envoy proxy metrics appears to REQUIRE setting the --admin-address-path command line flag. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-envoy-proxy#configuration Two ideas: S...
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Delivered

Adding GPU capability in Turbonomic

Currenlty GPU resources are not recognized in Turbonomic and we are going big with GPU enabled VMs. Due to wihich GPU enabled clusters are managed manually for VM Motion. This ineeds to be prioritized. Lack of GPU resource understandng in Turbonom...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Delivered

Application Topology Definition - Add support for missing entity types, e.g. Azure App Services entities

Application topology Definition currently only support the following entity types: Business Application Service Application Component Namespace Virtual Machine Workload Controller Database Database Server Other entity types such as App Component S...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Delivered

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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

Enhancement for the quick search feature within the EventViewer

When events are grouped within the EventViewer, you can’t use the quick search to find events. Please have a look at the attached screenshots: eventViewer1.png: Framed pink are alle the events which are grouped underneath the top lovel event. filt...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered