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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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ktor library support

Everyone using Kotlin platform.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Not under consideration

Manage agent keys inside Instana UI

Follow on from this ticket where it was necessary to rotate the Agent Keys this feature request is for the capability to manage Agent Keys from the Instana UI in order to limit the visibility and usage of keys to specific teams or parts ...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Quick Filters - To be permanent on the Main or Parent Filter

Set Quick Filters as permanent than temporary
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Hide authorization token in alert channel header value

Please provide an option to hide the value field when there is a token inside for security reasons. You will find this in the alert channel header area. Details please find in the attached screenshot.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0

Increase Event Time Window Selection for a Spesific Time Period While Creation Event

We want to monitor the number of calls made to an endpoint in a certain time interval and create an alarm. However, the time interval options in custom event configuration of instana can be arranged as maximum 120 minutes. If we can extend this ti...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

WebGUI 8.1 : Column add comments directly to that field without right click tool

Users requested to have “new” field (similar to Journal), so that it is possible to add comments directly to that field, without opening new window (right click tool). According to requirement it should work like in excel sheet. Additionally, user...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

TDWC does not have the flexibility of 5.1 in ISPF TWS dialog

The flexibility of 5.1 in ISPF TWS dialog is not available in TDWC - see TS001756747 Above asks for a PMR iD but PMR's have been replaced by case numbers (Sales Force) but this system does not recognise case numbers!
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Linux Running Services in Data Model and Data portal

The Data model is missing Linux Services. It currently has Windows services only.I would like to see Linux services added to the data model; Have Linux Sensor populate the data into the model and have that information displayed in the data portal ...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Support for jboss logging version 3.4.1 without programmatic API

For making the JBoss deployment lighter, and for reducing downtime while deployments, we consider that using jboss logging is more convenient than log4j. Unfortunately, this logging framework is not supported by instana (see case #30712). So then,...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists