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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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Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
15 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Object Multitenancy Level - Ability to Obfuscate IP Addresses & Enhance Permission Management in SevOne NPM

Description: This idea aims to boost security and fine-tune access control in SevOne NPM and SevOne Data Insight with two key features: IP Address Obfuscation: Add the ability to mask device IP addresses in the SevOne interface, much like the curr...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Flow widget to display total traffic with different visualizations

At the moment when using flow widget we can display total traffic with table visualization. If we change to for example line chart or bar chart we no longer have total traffic, only "remaining traffic". If you would like to have line chart of flow...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 8 Future consideration

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Needs more information

Start supporting AWS target configuration via IAM Roles inside IBM Cloud (ROKS) using the CCO operator

Currently, Turbonomic has two ways of connecting cloud targets, via Access key for each AWS account or using IAM Roles. However, the integration functionality via IAM Roles does not work in environments outside AWS (EKS/ROSA), such as ROKS (IBM Cl...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Planned for future release

We want to restrict volume changes to ONLY performance and not efficiency.

The customer has a DR environment with lots of volumes. Turbo is recommending downsizes that the customer doesn't want. Right now Turbo policy has an option Prefer Savings Over Reversibility. But unlike VM policy we can't restrict changes to just ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Needs more information

DASH, JazzSM: TreeTableWidget should NOT collapse after refresh

This idea refers to TS016394284. Ticket contains additional information and video showing the issue. TreeTableWidget can be used to show tree data in a good way. You can browse through the tree and select lines.One big problem is that the tree col...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Retrigger open events after a maintenance window

The use of a maintenance window is to prevent events/issues/alerts during a period which systems, transactions or metrics are expected to go outside the normal range of values/behavior. After the maintenance window, the event/alerts/smart alert sh...
29 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Under review

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration