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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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Request support for Oracle Fusion Middleware Versions - 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4

Request to support Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4 Currently tracing shows "Source not monitored by Instana" for 80% of the SOAP calls.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Not under consideration

IBM APM Citrix Agent to support https connectivity for the citrix xenapp/Xen Desktop

Citrix XenApp/Xen Desktop is configured with https protocol. Currently we are facing a connectivity issue as IBM APM Citrix agent does not support https connectivity to the citrix application. So we request to provide a new version of IBM APM Citr...
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

I want to use Regex when creating a group based on a pattern in Accounts

A client had AWS Accounts with UAT in their names. We wanted to create a group of VMs from all these UAT Accounts. These UAT machines could be scaled more quickly without too much approval. ie. Accounts .*UAT.*
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

ITM for Omegamon doesn't support Microsoft Crypto Api and/or Windows keystore

keyfile.kdb maintaining for ITM Omegamon is unflexible and makes certificate maintenance very time-consuming.Updates overwrite user specific settings. So we were forced to implement a customer specific kdb with special name to avoid this. Maintain...
10 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Add notes in application logs after instrumentation on how to disable auto-instrumentation for the application

When we instrument the containerised application, and some errors prevent it from starting, customers complain that instrumentation breaks the application. Some of them uninstall autotrace-webhook, some disable Autotrace Webhook, some add a namesp...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

XenServer ITCAM does not collect CPU and Memory utilization metrics

Hi Support team, this idea is follow-up for the Case TS004347982. XenServer ITCAM does not collect CPU and Memory utilization data from Citrix XenServer Management API. We received the following suggestion from L3 support: Citrix eventually admit ...
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Support to monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application, therefore, able to see Splunk applications through the Instana Portal.

We want monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application in the Instana application perspective. As per the IBM support, there is no support to monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application, therefore, you will not be able to see any Splunk hosts or ...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Enable Smart Alerts for Traces

This would be useful because there are certain scenarios where certain types of data can only be categorized by filters by trace level instead of call level. Currently alerts and smart alerts can only be setup to filter by calls and not trace leve...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Not under consideration

PHP CLI Support Configuration in Instana-Agent

As an Instana user, I would like to have PHP CLI support configuration in the instana-agent, so that the PHP sensor always initializes without needing to rely on a running php-fpm process for auto-detection. This would be especially useful when tr...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration

True additive group scopes

Currently the group membership model is complicated, and counter-intuititve. If Group A is Access all, and Group B is no access to -say- Infrastructure, a user joining Group A would have full access. If they were to later join Group B, they would ...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under consideration