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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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Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
3 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Get skupper-router in the SaaS product to use a valid cert signed by a public CA for TLS transport during token exchange with on-prem appliance

Token exchange is failing through our transparent Internet proxies because an untrusted internal CA certificate from the skupper-router is being used for both TLS transport and mTLS. The untrusted cert is causing the connection to be reset by the ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Make authentications availability and location more flexible. For example, credentials for within body of request.

"Make authentications available for use within the body of or as parameters for the request. Some integrations and usecases like CURL or HTTPRequest I was looking to pass the credentials as a part of the body. Perhaps you set an authentication for...
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Needs more information

Expose API Calls in RNA

Currently when testing any workflow for e.g. authentication failure, the logs are not verbose enough to show details of failure nor the details of API's calls being made. This makes it difficult to identify what is contributing to the failure.
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Under review

Per workflow/folder git repository

allow for centralized control
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Needs more information

Extend the support of NGINX monitoring and tracing for Red Hat Linux OS platform

Currently Red hat Linux OS does not supported for monitoring and tracing NGINX . Using NGINX on Red Hat OS is widely used in our bank .
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 1 Under review

Need to be able to assign tags to an integration node

Currently, tags can only be assigned to a Host or to some specific sensors such as MQ. Customers have a need to use tags for filtering, thresholding, etc. using tags for other sensors. Specifically, this customer needs to be able to use tags on an...
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Dollar value for on-prem scaling - just like Cloud. Each action has a saving/cost to it.

The customer would like Turbo to put a price tag on each action. They want to be able to tell how much adding vMem or vCPU or a combo. to a VMware VM costs. The customer is aware that it depends on a bunch of things (cost/hr of host, cost/hr of da...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Planned for future release

Turbonomic (Cloud) integration with Microsoft Azure Client/Custom Policies

We define policies in Microsoft Azure to provide subscription management for Virtual Machine size limitations. Turbonomic cannot currently read custom Azure policy and will therefore recommend, and attempt, to resize certain VM sizes. These Turbon...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration