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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?
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Add PATCH Method for Adding/Removing Members to a Group

Today, if you want to modify a groups membership via our REST API, you need to use a PUT method which requires you to post all members of the group back to the system not just the ones that have changed. If you are modifying a group multiple times...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Make the POST Targets endpoint Non-Blocking when adding New Targets

When using the API to add targets in bulk, each call to add a target is blocking and requires validation to complete (success or fail) before returning a HTTP response. This is less than ideal since the script/process adding targets has to wait fo...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Populating SRC_TRANSPORT & DST_TRANSPORT Metadata for Versa

We have a situation that a Versa customer wants to create specific alert policies based on source tunnel type (transport) and destination tunnel type. Today, the solution only captures the tunnel type on the source side utilizing the object type. ...
6 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Planned for future release

Add support for MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication

Instana agent does not support monitoring MongoDB configured with Kerberos Authentication
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Enable INSTANA auto-tracing for Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Hi Team, I am creating this ticket as a follow-up of https://support.instana.com/hc/en-us/requests/23465. We at Arlo are using Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), a fully managed, highly available caching service built for Amazon DynamoDB. With cur...
6 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Future consideration

Script output monitoring using Instana (similar to IBM APM)

IBM APM customers can currently run scripts and monitor the output using regexpressions and create alerts on certain conditions. Similar capability is required in Instana to run scripts periodically and process the output. Example: Run a simple sc...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need the DB2 sensor to be able to monitor the DB2 diag log (db2diag.log)

The DB2 diag log (db2diag.log) contains a critical set of information for customers wishing to monitor their DB2 servers. Many Warning and Critical conditions are logged to db2diag.log. In addition, for customers looking to migrate from IBM's olde...
6 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Download & Export only top 50

Allows you to download all line items in the top list when selecting Download. Otherwise you need to keep on clicking on "View More" to see all of the line items. If you want to see 1000s then you need to click "View More" until you reach the end ...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add appropriate filters to Smart alerts.

Dear colleagues, we're during PoC and noticed that creating a Smart Alert from Application perspective triggers the same component of the same application running on different OCP clusters. Detailed investigation showed that the application has th...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration

Collecting external URLs used in Webviews

Hi all, following support ticket TS012739487 regarding flutter monitoring within Instana, we need now to have a way to collectU, within Instana, all the URLs that are getting accessed when we're using webviews in our mobile applications. Please le...
6 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration