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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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Provide initial REST API Token without going to UI to support seemless automation

Customers want to setup and configure Instana Backend and the tenant units in an fully automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Many of the configuration tasks (like e.g. configure RBAC etc.) can only done with Instana REST API ( https:/...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Need to separate owner group mapping to prevent locking owners out

Hello Colleagues, we have several customers who locked out owner's user account while configuring LDAP mapping. It is one time operation, but affects all enterprise customers and often causes questions, requires several attempts in self-hosted env...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Let integration with elasticsearch include filters of entire application perspective

Dear colleagues, at the moment button appears only on host, port, container dashboard: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=logging-elk#accessing-elk-from-the-instana-ui and leads to the correspondent item only. Please c...
6 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Oracle Wallet Integration

Would like to have Oracle Agent fetch username and password by connecting to Oracle Wallet.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Other Tracers 4 Not under consideration

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under 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.
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

When multiple alerts are sent to a given alert channel, send a single message instead of 1 message per alert

Some users have more than 50 applications. When a core application is down, all connected applications generate an alert. Then the user receive a lot of emails or teams messages, which makes it difficult to handle. We would like to add the possibi...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Not under consideration