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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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Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Adding proxy configuration in Instana Sensor for AZURE

We need to use a proxy definition to reach Azure from the Instana agent on which there is a Instana cloud service agents In the AWS conguration is possible to specify a proxy We need the same option for AZURE In the INSTANA documentation To config...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Integration with hashicorp Vault supported namespaces

A client uses namespaces in HashiCorp Vault, but namespaces are not supported for integration from the Instana agent, so the only option at the moment is to use the root in HashiCorp Vault which may result in a security observation as it would hav...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Provide a Concurrent Count of VMs

This will help determine an accurate count of non-ephemeral workloads, which will help with software licensing requirements etc.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Provide Functionality to trigger an Anomaly based on a larger time sample. i.e Month over Month, vs Day over Dat

This helpful as they had a service that was idle for two months and it inadvertently started being used. It took a few days for it to be detected as anomalous behavior. Using a Month over Month time frame, might have triggered an alert earlier.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
5 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ 1 Future consideration

Targeting Oracle Connections - since Turbonomics requires Oracle Service Name and could be multiple Service names per VM server

creating 1 group for each Oracle VM and having 1 target connection for each Oracle DB service Name - get very cumbersome and quite manual and hard to maintain
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

EUM Reporting - make limit or disabling EUM traffic available as protection

operational requirment is 'protect monitoring against unwanted load' by EUM
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Visualize network flow duration

The current raw flow data view allows users to see detailed flow data for a specified time span, but it does not provide information on when the flow started or its duration. When an issue occurs during a specific time span and the cause needs to ...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 4 Functionality already exists

'Turbonomic Parker' role not available in Cloudability Premium

Turbonomic standard software has a user named 'Parker' allowing users to manage start/stop and schedule of their VMs in the parking feature. Parker role only gives them access to this. This 'Parker' role doesn't exist in Cloudability Premium which...