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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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ISM protocols in Instana

We would like to add ISM functionalities from the ISM agent (ITM and APM) to the Instana. It is necessary for us to have these functionalities so we can propose to our current customers to transfer from the ITM/APM solutions to Instana. Several of...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Future consideration

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

keep infrastructure metric history on activation of beeInstana

Please refere to TS015999019 Missing his torical Data after migration to beeinstana
4 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Future consideration

Optimize logs trace on IWS to keep track of actions by LDAP user

Actually the IWS if we make a connection to authenticate users by ldap, (MS Active Directory) on norma audit logs files (database / plan) all actions like create, delete, update any scheduling object, are keeping with twsusr owner and not the pers...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

add a security option to manage host for x-agent or pool

Hello, Security ask us to separate each application from one to another. That means that an admin A can create job on server x but it cannot create job for a server y under responsability of admin B Currently we used x-agent to manage workstation ...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

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