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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?

Instana

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LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

Submit complex IBM ELM JVM Mbeans or string based Mbeans as events or logs to Instana

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Extending Instana JAVA-Sensor to collect additional metrics from IBM ELM JVM's

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

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...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
7 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

Change the Instana Logo on the Homepage and Login Page

Our customer would like to replace the IBM Instana logo on the homepage and login page with their own logo.
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Under review

Let the license expiration notice be seen only by admins

Each year, as the license renewing period approaches, our users are worried about the notice "Licence expires in xx days". We would like this reminder to be seen only by the Instana administrators, to avoid unnecessary worries on the users' side.
2 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Needs more information

Bug reports are not publicly available and it is not possible to determine if the trouble that is occurring is known.

Bug reports are not publicly available and it is not possible to determine if the trouble that is occurring is known. Some fixed bugs are listed in the release notes and github update comments, but unfixed and in-progress bugs are only shared with...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 3

Add information for K8s/OCPs to the release notes in the Instana documentation

We are very pleased to see the release notes for Instana Agent/Sensor/Tracer being added.However, users of Instana with K8s/OCPs should also gather the following information. These can currently only be obtained from the individual githubs. YAML h...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release