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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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Add threshold for response time NFR in custom dashboards

To be able to compare the measured response time with our given non functional requirements regarding response time it would be helpful to set a constant value for the response time threshold in a time series widget in custom dashboards.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Allow stream name alias on event rule

We would like each time the monitored stream completes or errors (multiple times a day), a submitted stream gets alias with a unique name by the event rule. Aliasing a submitted stream is not functioning on IWS 9.5. Event Rule errors. For example:...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

ITCAM MS SQL Server Agent should self-recover the Collector on SQL Server recycle

The background and the issue to solve: Currently MS SQL agent version V6.3.1.20 fails to return data to TEPS after the SQL Server Instance has stopped and then been started again. This occurs if the SQL Server instance has stopped for more than th...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0

Properties that display when the number of users will exceed the recommended maximum number of concurrent users in webgui

. Is there any restriction of user log in if it exceeds concurrent user access count?
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

This is tricky

I can't figure out the follow....
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add PATCH Method for Adding/Removing Members to a Group

Today, if you want to modify a groups membership via our REST API, you need to use a PUT method which requires you to post all members of the group back to the system not just the ones that have changed. If you are modifying a group multiple times...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Make the POST Targets endpoint Non-Blocking when adding New Targets

When using the API to add targets in bulk, each call to add a target is blocking and requires validation to complete (success or fail) before returning a HTTP response. This is less than ideal since the script/process adding targets has to wait fo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Add support for MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication

Instana agent does not support monitoring MongoDB configured with Kerberos Authentication
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Enable INSTANA auto-tracing for Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Hi Team, I am creating this ticket as a follow-up of https://support.instana.com/hc/en-us/requests/23465. We at Arlo are using Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), a fully managed, highly available caching service built for Amazon DynamoDB. With cur...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration