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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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Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Password Reset option in DWC (like older versions)

Hello IBM Team, Since 9.5 DWC don't have the option to update the password (reset/change) . This is creating big problem . Can we have any utility or option in console from where users can update their password themselves. and Admin can track the ...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Need to see NUMA Scoring from HMC per Lpar in Instana

Hi for HANA on Power it is essentiall to see the NUMA Scoring for each VM from HMC in Instana
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Support Tracing of Kong API Gateway

Instana currently does not support Kong Tracing. On our platform, the Kong API- gateway is a very central and important component. Hence, we'd like to see spans of Kong in our distributed traces.
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 2

Monthly Time Period Picker

I had originally reached out via Apptio Support, and it was suggested I bring this as an enhancement request. (Case # 00349544) When we have monthly time period as picker(January, February etc), When we select the random month from the picker, t...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Option to apply resize policies on groups of namespaces

When trying to "cleanup" the whole cluster it is pretty tedious to keep filtering by namespaces. So my workflow using Turbonomic is usually that I check the recommendations on the Turbo homepage to see where the needs for resizing are. I then crea...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 5 Future consideration

Authentication options

Since GitHub has been integrated and used in Instana, we can have GitHub as one of the authentication method in Instana. This process can avoid multiple AD/SSO configurations in tools/applications.
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists