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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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API token for configuration only

Currently - when creating an API token, this token allows full access to monitoring data, including traces and potentially user data. Considering that API tokens are widely used in automation use cases and CI/CD pipelines it should be possible, if...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Add the request body while tracing in instana

In the tracing view, Instana does not collect any Request Body data/payload on a POST request. Header and Parameters are collected, but not the Body. it would be nice to add the request body so traces become more efficient
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Automated fallback from IBM-hosted monitoring locations

When IBM offers hosted/maintained synthetic monitoring locations. it might be helpful to provide automated fallback or automated verification of failed tests. For example, if a test fails from a monitor in a Virginia datacenter, retest from New Yo...
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

ITNM and ITNCM support for Cisco viptela devices

As we are moving our branches to SDWAN devices, we are looking for ITNM and ITNCM support Cisco Viptela devices
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add an option to solve from the "Stuck Online" state, when you don't WANT to STOP the resource

In a DB2 HADR cluster been managed by TSA (SAMP) policy, somehow the hadr database resource was reporting "Stuck Online" state. Everyghing was fine from DB2 and HADR perspective, Instace was UP, HADR was running normally, both primary and Standby ...
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

allow using groups based on virtual machines as a scope for volume policies

at the moment, volume policies are only configurable by resource group. we want machines that in lots of different resource groups to be in scope for a policy
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Instana: Built-in "System memory exhausted" Alert needs to take active/inactive memory into consideration

The existing built-in "System memory exhausted" Alert in Instana is unusable and I will be using Turbonomic instead. The below SuSE Linux URL supports this stand as well. SuSE Support: Memory management best practices URL: https://www.suse.com/sup...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Agent for Kafka

It would be useful for our Company to be able to monitor Kafka leveraging the existing ITM infrastructure. As a second choice we would consider using the APM infrastructure
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

ability to remove MFA/2FA from users who lost their MFA device

We often run into the situation where the user loses an Instana MFA/2FA device, and to re-enable the user, we have to raise a ticket to wipe the user and re-create the user from scratch. So this can be easily fixed by giving Instana admins the opt...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Secure files in /tmp/.instana

Original issue description: Our security policy does not accept files with permission to write and execute inside the directory "/tmp", as INSTANA creates this type of file in "/tmp/.instana" we have several issues of vulnerability. We verified in...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Not under consideration