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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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Restrict access to Heap Dumps

Currently everyone who has access to a JVM infrastructure perspective in Instana can also create a heap dump from there. Heap dumps might contain sensitive information. This access to the heap dump implies a major security and compliance issue for...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

What happened to Filters?

Our cluster was running 8.7.5 release and filters worked like a charm in Target Configuration. I could filter by Hypervisor Type and other parameters. Since we upgraded to 8.8.3 release, the only filter criteria available is Account/Subscription S...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Delivered

Missing condition "OR" while configuring thresholds

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss condition "OR" while configuring thresholds. Our customer uses it in Tivoli Monitoring situations. Customer seeks for transition to Instana, so its implementation is highly demanded or at least any analog. Below...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Delivered

Extend MQ events

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue Manager events that we need to monitor: "NOT_AUTHORIZED" "UNKNOWN_OBJECT" “Queue_Type_Error” “Default_Xmit_Queue_Type_Error” “Remote_Queue_Name_Error” “Transmission_Queue_Type_Error” “Transmission_...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Delivered

Update the Install guide for Enforcing Secure Access Via LDAP to be more explicit on which steps to take

In the Installation guide, under Gereral Configuration Tasks is the Enforcing Secure Access Via LDAP section (https://docs.turbonomic.com/docApp/doc/index.html?config=Install_Pnt#!/Latest_Install/_INSTALL_Topics_XL/Config_SecureAccess_LDAP_XL.xml)...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Delivered

Support for adding a Promethues target protected by user and token through prometurbo/turbodiff

Enterprise clients usually have access to prometheus api protected by authetication with user and token. At the moment connection with such target fails with the following log in turbodiff pod: 418044 1 discovery_client.go:142] Metric endpoints [h...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 2 Delivered

Allow users to set their own default columns per object type

For the DWC user interface, under "System Configuration" > "Set User Preferences" users should be able to set their own default column set for how they want to see result lists for each object type. This user-default set of columns would be use...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Delivered

Allow for increases in SLI quota for Instana.

We have run into a hard limit for the number of SLIs that are able to be created in Instana. When we asked to have the limit increased, we were told by the Instana engineers that this isn't possible currently. Its a hard coded limit that isn't abl...
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

.NET support for AWS Lambda runtime

.NET is currently not supported in the AWS Lambda runtime for agent deployment. We are running a .NET Lambda application which requires tracing to be included in part of an Application perspective.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 3 Delivered

Export data comparison table

Hello, By performing a filter on our machines on the comparison table view. It would be interesting to be able to export all the machines that we see. This will allow us to use them for scripts or to transfer them Sincerely
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered