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When SSO is enabled, feature to send invite email to add users should be disabled

Once SSO is enabled, in order to get access to application users need to be part of AD security group. But if any user (even outside the organization) is sent invite to join Instana, he/she can create his/her own password and can login to the appl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

Plugin Amazon S3 - Using Proxy for AWS S3 Connections

We are experiencing an issue with the "s3" plugin in IBM IWS (Amazon S3 integration). It appears that the plugin does not use the configured proxy settings to connect to AWS S3, resulting in a connection failure. Please check out the case I opened...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Delivered

Kafka connection using username and password

It would be very useful to have the possibility for the agent to connect to kafka instances using username and password. This feature would help for better audit checks and security.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

ObjectServer HADR feature required to use failover pair as DASH/WebGUI HA source

Along with OMNIbus Core 8.1.0.24, DASH 3.1.1.9 and OMNIbus WebGUI 8.1.0.21 an ObjectServer can be used as DASH HA database source.Unfortunately only a single ObjectServer instance can be configured as a source which will be again a single point of...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

support requests routed by the Apache Sling

Requests routed by the Apache Sling is not properly handled by the Java Trace plugin. We have noticed that Instana is capturing Apache Sling calls as erroneous calls. We have raised a support ticket with Instana support and the suggestion was to r...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 11 Delivered

Improve the ITNM mustgather script and provide in the code with future fixpack releases

Currently the itnm_data.pl mustgather script is provided in a technote available for download here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/collect-data-ibm-tivoli-network-manager-ip We would like to see this included in the code so that it is available...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Addition of SSL certificate days to expire on Synthetic Monitoring Page

We'd like to have visibility of the days to expire on the main/landing page (a column added alongside the other metrics monitored such as health, latency, status etc.) of the Synthetic Monitoring page, for a quick glimpse of the certificates that ...
8 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Delivered

Retain slicer selections when changing currency

Currently, when a user has slicers/columns selected and then change the reporting currency, all of their selections are reset. It would be great if this did not happen and the slicer/picker selections were retain. Same idea raised here for ITP b...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Delivered

Support for Apache HTTPd in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Apache HTTPd, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
8 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

Include custom payload for Log monitoring

We are able to configure smart alerts for logs but Instana does not support adding custom payload to log smart alerts. Lack of custom payload for log alerts is depriving us from knowing from which application the log is being triggered (We have 17...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 1 Delivered