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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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Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
12 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

A list of all Data Insight Report and Maps owners should be a feature for DI admins, to export, in tabular format

DI users have requested that a Data Insight administrator user should be able to export a list of reports and maps. Several support tickets have been opened for this. It is possible to generate a list of reports with owners on the DI backend. Ther...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Debug Output of Tokens in Probes should be in lexiacal order

"Older" Probes like mttrapd show the received Tokens in the Log File in a meaningful sorting. Younger Probes like MessageBus or ews list the tokens in a apparently random order. Customer uses the debug logs for documentation of different event typ...
12 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Variance Reporting in IT Planning

Objective: Reverse the variance signs in IT Planning/Expenses to show a positive variance as a positive number and a negative variance as a negative number. Current State: Currently in Apptio, the variances in IT Planning/Expenses show that a neg...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Improve Dex Logging.

When attempting to configure Single Sign On with the NMS when pressing Save after checking "Enable SSO" in the Cluster Manager page it often fails with just a generic error banner. There is no logging under either /var/log/dex.log or in the dex co...
4 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Is a defect

Add Build to Batch Actions Panel

Instead of having to click into individual user stories, features, etc. or using the search functionality in the Build detail view, allow the Build to edited in bulk. It is a common scenario to add a group of user stories to a Build rather than on...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review