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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 details needs to be displayed in Topology

Hello Team, We have the ITNM that is On-Prem and is running the Discovery. We also have an ASM cluster that is in the cloud and has the ITNM_Observer enabled to load the topology from On-Prem ITNM server. One of the requirement from our customer i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

PHP CLI Support Configuration in Instana-Agent

As an Instana user, I would like to have PHP CLI support configuration in the instana-agent, so that the PHP sensor always initializes without needing to rely on a running php-fpm process for auto-detection. This would be especially useful when tr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration

Improving Kubernetes Alerting

Status quo Built-in event ("Kubernetes Pod condition status") for when a Kubernetes pod reports 'Not Ready' state for more than one minute. Desired Ability to get alerted when pods created within last 30 minutes reports 'Not Ready' state for more ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Map Groups with SAML (Okta)

We have SSO setup for the Instana Backend using SAML with Okta. We would like to be able to map groups provided by the Idp to Instana roles/groups. The ability to map our internal LDAP groups to Instana groups would give us the ability to apply ac...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

Spring Batch Tracing

We are trying to gather traces from Spring Batch applications running as steps in an Argo workflow. The applications may start processing before the Instana agent has discovered and instrumented the JVM. We need a method to effectively trace Sprin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists

TEPS migrate script (used on non-Windows platforms) to operate against a remote MSSQL DB on Windows.

Hi IBM support, As a follow up to an IBM case which we had opened (Case ID: TS012735674), it was found that the existing TEPS running on non-Windows platforms like for example, xLinux and zLinux do not have the capability to perform migrate export...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 6 Not under consideration

We want to control how often we access AzureStorage

We are experiencing problems with AzureStorage monitoring using Instana. The problem is that excessive access to AzureStorage causes "TooManyAccess" errors. According to Azure support, this error is over access from a subscription perspective and ...
10 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Need instana support for tracing of SAP MES (base on NetWeaver)

Background: CATL(www.catl.com) has ranked first in global power battery usage for 7 consecutive years, with Y23 Rev of over CNY 400 billion and net profit of over CNY 40 billion. It is an absolute industry leader and has an influential power on th...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Provide detailed user and usage statistics to satisfy internal audit requirements

Need to know detailed user metrics such as the last log on date, product metrics showing hourly and daily usage of the product for justification and audit. A way to look at usage trends and the number of concurrent logins over a trend. Ability to ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 7 Not under consideration

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Future consideration