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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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Selective access to logs

Similar to Applications, Infrastructure, etc. It should be possible to restrict access to logs based on specific criteria. Ideally logs would be filtered according to permissions on Applications + Infrastructure. Additionally It'd be great to eith...
10 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Selective discovery of Prometheus sensor in Kubernetes Clusters

When deploying the Prometheus sensor to Kubernetes it tries to discover prometheus metrics endpoints from every service. This can lead to increased load and logs created by services that do not provide fitting metrics endpoints. When deploying the...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Smart Alert should not be closed after 03 hours if still true.

Scenario:We are monitoring an endpont that should raise an alert if no calls received during 10 minutes.The problem is that the Smart Alert is being closed after 3 hours as we learned from Instana support as hard coded "give up" time even though t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Not under consideration

Citrix Hypervisor Monitoring

Thinking if a sensor could be able to consume RRDsCustomers can monitor the performance of their Citrix Hypervisor servers and Virtual Machines (VMs) using the metrics exposed through Round Robin Databases (RRDs). Here is the link for details: htt...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Autoprofile support when using the instana lambda extension

We instrument our node based AWS lambdas by using the instana lambda extension. If technically feasible, it would be nice to have support for AutoProfile when using this sensor.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Notification cards do not link directly to the mentioning comment.

Clicking a notification of a mention should take me straight to the comment in which I was mentioned, not merely to the top of the page the comment was on. We have some big tickets with long descriptions and lots of comments, so it is a pain to se...
10 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

TS015241046 - nco-p-patrol the probe not supported on zLinux

The customer "american express" is moving all Netcool to zLinux, when we try to install nco-p-patrol, it's not supporting. Please could you rebuild the probe to zLinux also? CC8WCEN NetcoolOMNIbus 8 Certified Probe for BMC PATROL V9 (nco-p-patrol-...
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

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