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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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Define a group based on a tag

Customer wants to be able to create a scope/group based off a particular tag, and then assign a user to that group. To have RBAC based on tags.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 1

The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Allow encryption key to be supported in DI

During a DI integration with identity provider (IDP). Notice if the encryption key is enabled at IDP, DI will not be able to authenticate the user. If disable encryption, user can be authenticated. Passing Token without encryption is a security lo...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration needs to support the objects included in the JSON format

The current Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration should be able to parse the current Elastic Common Schema as defined here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-log.html
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 2 Future consideration

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
11 months ago in Instana / Python 5 Planned for future release

Trace through Azure API Management and Azure Service Bus

Clients use Integrations running in Azure are expecting full tracing end to end through Azure API Management - Appservice - Azure SQL - Azure Service Bus - Azure Functions. Today Instana can only trace through App Services and Functions so we can ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review