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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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Instana fix pack upgrade directly from one version to any version should be possible

Currently we are using 1.239 version which is 6 months old than the latest version 1.263. Currently Instana doesn't support direct upgrade from one version to any version. We have to upgrade atleast 6 times to reach to the latest version 1.263. In...
10 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

We would like event rules to trigger off of object changes in the database and in the plan

We would like to allow application teams to perform updates in our production environment and we would like to have an event rule trigger when objects are updated in the database and/or in the plan and then send the following information either th...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Secure files in /tmp/.instana

Original issue description: Our security policy does not accept files with permission to write and execute inside the directory "/tmp", as INSTANA creates this type of file in "/tmp/.instana" we have several issues of vulnerability. We verified in...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Not under consideration

Allow the engine to load more than 250 AD Groups.

Currently when attempting to filter the Edit share list for available groups only 250 groups are shown in Available Groups. When we select All to share , in the Groups Selected for Sharing, all the groups should be visible so that we remove the Gr...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard threshold - marked out/backlighted

In Big Number widget add a field, that will include threshold. When threshold will be reached widget should be marked out/backlighted.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

API token for configuration only

Currently - when creating an API token, this token allows full access to monitoring data, including traces and potentially user data. Considering that API tokens are widely used in automation use cases and CI/CD pipelines it should be possible, if...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Oracle alert log data on the mcm console

We are missing oracle alert log data in UI (mcm console), I had a discuss with UI developer team to develop UI so that we can see the oracle alert log data in mcm console same as ITM oracle extended agent. IBM Case# TS014762727
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Autometic Geo failover of Two separate MCM environments - how we can failover agents without a post-configuration script such as 1) using the same custom certificate and 2) DNS hostname change with the same ip address.

Geo failover prevents a single point of failure. Using the same custom certificate for two different MCM environments gives active/active or active/passive failover mechanism for uninterrupted 24X7 monitoring.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement request to take an action when all rerun attempts got completed using Event rule.

1. IWA to invoke Python script only after final attempt of re-run of a given job fails a. We need to submit script using adhoc job in event rule whenever there is a job ABEND, when all the automatic reruns/ iterations are completed. b. Currently t...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration