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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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Ability for Profiling IBM J9 runtime

Please add the ability for Profiling IBM J9 runtime
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation

We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Support runtime data collectors to monitor applications using gRPC

When deploying an application that uses gRPC with the runtime data collector, that is, even if the communication between the kubernetes services is other than HTTP/HTTPS, it can be viewed the service dependency topology and the transaction sequenc...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Non interactive account to install IWS

We need to be able to install the IWS MDM with a NON interactive Linux IPA service account. KPMG service accounts do not allow login nor can you 'su - ' to them. At thif tim version 9.5 and 10 require the TWS user account to have login capable int...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

CyberArk CCP integration (OS User method - kerberos) with IWA

We are expecting you to develop a solution to have CyberArk integration with TWS application via . For now, CyberArk integration with IWA (TWS) is supported with CP and CCP method. In our environment, it is not possible to implement CCP using clie...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Standardize date and time display

Allow the user to configure the display of date and time values. Consistently apply formatting across the produce. A good default format would be ISO-8601. 2018-04-22 16:20.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Single execution plan for executing same action on systems located at different timezones, like Cloud Availability zones or regions

If I have a distributed application deployed at different timezones, I need to create many policies to execute an action at 6 AM on Saturday. This leads to a large number of execution plans and associated policies. If the action is same and need t...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Not under consideration

Do not rewrite Instana Console UI URL to host_name in settings.hcl

We need to skip setting the host_name variable in the settings.hcl file. Whenever we are trying to login to the console using the IP address or the hostname or the loadbalancer URL, its redirecting to the defined value of host_name in the settings...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Third party library stack traces

Having the source map integrated into instana is very helpful, however sometimes, the stack trace is not that clear, because the stack trace reported is related to a third party library, and in this case the mapping is not very helpful
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

Support for Grails in Application Monitoring & Tracing

Currently Grails application although running in the JVM can not be monitored on Application Monitoring mode.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration