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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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Enhancement of Quick Filters to display more than 150 recent entities

Currently Quick Filters has a limitation of the entities which shows 150 recently viewed items. This makes some of them invisible unless the name will be used un the search.
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Under review

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR MongoDB?

PostgreSQL is Opensource and widely used DB. Similarly, MongoDB as well is getting wider recognition. Support of these DBs is already there in IMPACT but missing for IBM JDBC Gateway. So, IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR M...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Synthetic 0 Under review

SSO Validation for Targetprocess for a token

The security that is currently set up does not meet standards and is concerning that users can access when they shouldn't. For example if a service account token is shared and then a particular user leaves the company because the service account i...
19 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment.

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment. In an OpenShift environment, K8Sensor runs as three PODs by default. The first deployed pod is designated as the leader pod and is responsible for s...
20 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Ignoring a proposed action for a certain period of time (hiding it from the Pending Action list for that period).

Turbonomic can generate many actions, but sometimes you may want to ignore a proposed action for a certain period of time after understanding its content. In such cases, it would be useful for operations if you could check the relevant action and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 5 Future consideration

Search Box

I would love to have a "search box" where a user can enter text and the report will return the list of relevant records, such as relevant applications. this will work just like the "ehancement idea" search box on this idea page. there are no repor...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Flow widget to display total traffic with different visualizations

At the moment when using flow widget we can display total traffic with table visualization. If we change to for example line chart or bar chart we no longer have total traffic, only "remaining traffic". If you would like to have line chart of flow...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 8 Future consideration