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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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Convert "Smart Alert" into "Global Smart Alert" and vice versa

Sometimes Instana users own more than one application perspective. Suppose they already defined a smart alert on one ap and later want to apply the same configuration also on other ap(s). Then it would be helpful to have a button in the UI, that a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

An option during the upgrade or uninstall of an agent to only choose the Dynamic Agent and not the FTA

During the installation of an agent, an option is available (-agent dynamic|fta|both) to choose which type of agent to install, either a Dynamic Agent (DA) or an Fault-Toerant Agent (FTA). A similar option must exist for upgrade (-update) and unin...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Top database & container pod information bulk download function

If we download from the Top Virtual Machines widget, we can download all virtual machine information at once.However, in the case of Top Container Pods , workload Controllers , Container Specs , Namespace , Databases,We can only download 50 pieces...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Send application monitoring events via kafka topic to Instana

data ingestion/consumption to Instana from Kafka Producers.Use case is that application like ibm biz hub is producing and propagating monitoring data via kafka topic and Instana could be used for monitoring via kafka topic and also existing agent ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Ability for RBAC to enable Objects on Team Scope

Use-case: To allow more flexible rules for allowing people access to specific entities it would be great to instead of selecting the entities (app perspectives, namespace, etc.) one by one, to allow a query builder approach in which we can use log...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Concatenation of variable is translating to Password

Hi IWA Team, I had a requirement to put the password as a concatenated variable and migrate the code to next instance. I have created the composer file for 100 jobs and in password section i have added ${password.key1}${password.key1} Then i used ...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Character Limitation on Variable length for a variable in Variable table.

Hi IWA team, We had a requirement where the parameter was more than 1500 character. We were not able to use the variable since there is limitation of 1025 characters, Could you please remove this limitation? Regards Lochan
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Cannot rename/label hosts

It is easy to segregate the servers
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Create API to purge data for a given agent/host

The agent on our Instana backend host got switched from Infrastructure mode to APM mode and cause the system to consume more than 100 GB of data over the course of just a few days. We switched it back off, but now we are stuck with all this data w...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 4 Is a defect

OMNIbis Probe for NNMi support of latest versions

The latest available version of Probe for NNMi (nco_p_hp_nnm) is 4.0, which supports NNMi 2019.11 as the latest version. The NNMi 2019.11 is very old and not supported on the RHEL 8.x. On the RHEL 8.x are supported following NNMi versions: 2020.0...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration