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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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Better Agent update management

Controlling and managing agent updates is difficult, and at times does not work, or at least, does not work as expected. We have had difficulty suspending updates in K8s - turning it off has been temporary, finding it on again. Automatic updates...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Output of netstat from host dashboard

In this particular case - execute a netstat command and get the output - perhaps in a popup window like we do for thread dumps or command line parameters. In general, I get requests to execute arbitrary commands from the context of a dashboard. ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

long SQL query limit

when an application run long SQL queries in a call, the query seems to be cut of after 4096 characters. In my case the query is generated from MS Dynamics 365 and I would like to see the 'Group by' and 'where' statements as well, to determind if t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Create IBM Cloud Functionality with TSAMP

TSAMP is currently not supported to run and installed on IBM Cloud.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Future consideration

Allow visibility on timed out Redis requests on the client side

In our redis client implementation instana does not trace high latency calls that raise a timeout exception. For better understanding redis behaviour these slow calls should be traced as well.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Instana needs to create a sensor agent to observe Spectrum Scale on Linux on Z

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and is investing heavily in a hybrid cloud platform inclusive of Instana. We want to make use of this footprint and Instana observability capabilities across our hybrid cloud, withou...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Mark "downstream" services accordingly and filter them in the dashboard

Once you select "Automatically include Downstream Services in Applications" it would be interesting to: (1) See the "downstream services" marked as such in the "services" list and dependancy map etc. (2) Have an ability to turn on/off the downstr...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

Non interactive account to install IWS

We need to be able to install the IWS MDM with a NON interactive Linux IPA service account. KPMG service accounts do not allow login nor can you 'su - ' to them. At thif tim version 9.5 and 10 require the TWS user account to have login capable int...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

CyberArk CCP integration (OS User method - kerberos) with IWA

We are expecting you to develop a solution to have CyberArk integration with TWS application via . For now, CyberArk integration with IWA (TWS) is supported with CP and CCP method. In our environment, it is not possible to implement CCP using clie...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Actualfree and free memory usage - AIX server monitoring

Its has been noticed that the memory usage under the infrastructure monitoring is reporting incorrect readings. After working with the support, found that instana use Sigar library to collect the memory metrics, which offers two values free and ac...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration