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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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IWS auditing for Login events (DWC, conman, composer) and changes to configuration and security files

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over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add last day of month as variable like {DD}

I want the ability to run a datalink connector on the first of the month to retrieve data from the previous month, with the added capability to have {DD} variable specified as the last day of the last month. For example in a REST connector connect...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic to give recommendations for Azure VM Scale Sets.

A lot of corporations have Azure VM Scale Sets which are improperly configured. They are set to scale OUT but not IN. And there is a lot of waste. Would love it if VM Scale Sets are treated differently and recommendations given - e..g SCALE IN for...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Active Directory Monitoring and Tracing

Application monitoring/tracing for Domain Controllers and Active Directory will improve our enterprise observability into a key application. By using Instana as the enterprise monitoring tool, we need all applications to be monitored/traced in a s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1

Provide a way to disable side car action creation

Today, Turbonomic create automatically groups for sidecar workloads and a policy with recommend only actions. Since Turbonomic can't apply those changes, it's just informational. The problem is customer has thousands of actions that is polluting t...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Implement Agent Request Buffering to Prevent Metric Outages

Dear Instana Product Team, I would like to propose the implementation of a request buffering mechanism within the Instana agent to mitigate and avoid metric outages during periods of network instability or high latency. Problem Statement Currently...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter

Title: Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter Detail: We want Instana to capture IMS calls which are maded from client side with WM EntireX Adapter. We would like that client adapter to be supported from version 10.7.0.21.1826 and above.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Encryption of credentials in configuration

It would be desirable if the credentials configured in Alert Channels were not displayed in plain text. This makes it possible for anyone with access to Instana to go into the configuration and see the credentials (username and password) in plain ...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

monitoring specific to kubeapiserver, kube-controll-manager and scheduler

Monitoring specific to kubeapiserver, kube-controll-manager and scheduler. PMR (TS016949061)
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Planned for future release

Support OracleDB for Golang

Currently our agent support most of the general databases, would be great if we can support OracleDB so it valued customers to see insightful traces. At the mean time, Dynatrace is also releasing the support for Go-Oracle-connector libraries.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration