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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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Cloudability should be able to automatically archive deleted accounts

Cloudability has access to our billing account and to the API to query additional information. There should be a capability within Cloudability to automatically archive accounts that do not exist no more. Currently those accounts are grouped toget...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Need to support Oracle LDAP

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Oracle LDAP as a corporate identity provider system. Instana allows users in, however it doesn't allow to map groups with Instana groups for centralised user management. Customer has found that Instana includ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Add support for a self-hosted appliance on public cloud IaaS

A number of customers are for a self-hosted deployment of a virtual appliance hosted on Public Cloud IaaS as they cannot use SaaS due to data privacy consideration and do not want to go for an OVA deployment as they either have outsourced the on-p...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Enhance End user monitoring to make it fully functional with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform

The IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform (ELM) is widely used within the automotive industry. It is based on IBM Websphere Application Server with IBM HTTP Server for the web based application. To be able to trace performance issues with ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Under review

Action Script support for IBM i local monitoring

I tested action script (Bash or Python) from IBM i native agent (local monitoring), but the error "cannot identify the OS" occurred. Please add the function to support action script on IBM i host agent.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Planned for future release

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 0 Under review

Add a way to be able quick filter NetFlow widget in DI

Not every user is comfortable with editing a widget to create a filter for a Flow widget. Would be great if there was a way to create a quick filter from the main report. For example, for view is Top Applications; provide a way to filter applicati...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 5 Planned for future release

FTP monitoring in ace

In ACE, for many clients, we have numerous flows that receive input from files, especially via FTP. However, we have noticed that Instana is unable to trace these inputs. It would be beneficial to monitor this scenario as well.
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Future consideration

IMPROVE AND ALLOW MAP GEO CAPABILITY

1. I would like to duplicate an existing map from the explore->maps screen 2. Map permissions/sharing should mimic reports/shortcuts/etc. public/private/team/tenant/specific users 3. Topology widgets have no way to not be in 'GEO' mode which ne...
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Custom Attributes on Roles

We would like to add a custom checkbox to Roles for our use? Our intent would be to reference that Boolean field in reporting and other automation rules.
10 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review