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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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Need to support Oracle LDAP

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Oracle LDAP as a corporate identity provider system. Instana allows users in, however it doesn't allow to map groups with Instana groups for centralised user management. Customer has found that Instana includ...
10 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Add support for a self-hosted appliance on public cloud IaaS

A number of customers are for a self-hosted deployment of a virtual appliance hosted on Public Cloud IaaS as they cannot use SaaS due to data privacy consideration and do not want to go for an OVA deployment as they either have outsourced the on-p...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Enhance End user monitoring to make it fully functional with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform

The IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform (ELM) is widely used within the automotive industry. It is based on IBM Websphere Application Server with IBM HTTP Server for the web based application. To be able to trace performance issues with ...
10 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Under review

Add Support for additional hypervisor Proxmox Virtual Environment

All VMware customer are currently evaluation options to mitigate the effect of the price hikes for the VMware products after VMware was acquired by Broadcom. One option usually evaluated is migration to another virtualization platform/hypervisor. ...

Action Script support for IBM i local monitoring

I tested action script (Bash or Python) from IBM i native agent (local monitoring), but the error "cannot identify the OS" occurred. Please add the function to support action script on IBM i host agent.
11 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Need Turbo API to extract SaaS server audit logs into Splunk

We have PCI requirement to collect Turbo audit logs by 3Q25.
19 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Submitted

Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
28 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Turbonomic support for Oracle Cloud

The support for OCI (Oracle Cloud) was initially raised as "TURBO-I-274", but it seems to have stalled in discussions, being marked as "Not under consideration". On the other hand, there has been an increase in the use of OCI among Japanese custom...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 7 Not under consideration

The SevOne DI reports scheduled to FTP were overwritten

Dear Sir: We found out when we were scheduling (every weekly or monthly auto export) FTP exported the report of Data Insight. The FTP exported PDF file name of Data Insight is the same as previously file name. So the new exported file PDF will cov...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release