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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 OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Include a simple method to import AD/LDAP certificates for external authentication

The current method to import the LDAP certificate to allow for external AD authentication is extremely complex, cumbersome, time consuming, and error prone. Multiple troubleshooting sessions are needed at times to figure out how to get the certifi...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Future consideration

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Improve security around "Share Page" views through Tauboard to not have security vulnerabilities

We had to turn off the "Share view" functionality because it would allow our users to share proprietary views outside of our company to anyone with an internet connection. We liked the ease of use and functionality of being able to share any infor...
12 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Sync Team Iterations (Sprints) in Date order

Ideally, the sprints that are auto-generated should sync back to Jira in the correct order. Instead, we put undue inconvenience of having to rearrange all the sprints after they are sync'd to Jira. This is not a good user experience.
12 days ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 0 Submitted

Multi factor Authentication

"Background:Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enhances the security of an application by providing an added layer(s) of authentication mechanism. The authentication mechanism can be any of the following types: what the user knows (security questio...
12 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
23 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

update the Workload Improvements Charts to include what a workload is.

Customers want to track licenses - and often think they can use the workload chart to do so - but they cannot. A separate Idea for Enhancement will be added today. If the documentation was updated to include the following - it would add clarity. A...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 1 Needs more information

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted