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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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 back missing info from Workload Designer

In IWS 9.3, Workload Designer, when looking for an object (a Job for example), it would give basic information in the search results - Job name, Workstation, Job type, last updated (or created) and who last updated it. In 9.5 the last updated and ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

envoy sensors for envoy 1.19 with gRPC

we added Envoy >= v1.15 support to our libinstana_sensor artifact for distributed tracing in version 1.5.0.
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 0 Delivered

Retain init.cfg custom user configuration when upgrading Dynamic Agent

If people are not aware that the init.cfg is overwritten when the IWS Agent is upgraded as I was not aware, then after the upgrade event rules could stop working, e.g. event rules which monitor network shares. I feel as this would benefit everyone...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Improve trace context between Weblogic T3 RMI calls

Customer's request: To provide trace context between outgoing (A) T3 RMI calls to another Weblogic instance (B).Used protocol: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/web.1111/e13721/rmi_t3.htm#WLRMI143Moving to https based protocol is not an option ...
over 2 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Numeric scale for sensitivity slider in Smart Alerts

a numeric value for sensitivity fo Smart Alerts is desired.Iteratively tuning the sensitivity of multiple alerts is complicated as there is no way to measure "how much" it has been changed or to compare sensitivities between alerts.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Enhancement of ITNM TL1 collector to include vlan details from the discovered devices

IBM recently developed and delivered a new TL1 collector to discover FiberHome devices. Post deployment it was found out that the vlan details are missing in the same. This request is to enhance the collector code so as to include the vlan details...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Delivered

Support for Camunda tracing

The customer would like to have the ability to support tracing for the BPM application Camunda.
almost 3 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Enable Instana AWS agent to collect CloudFront Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

The customer wants to enable an Instana (AWS) agent to collect CloudFront monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Infrastructure Explore in Grafana Plugin does not have a group by or metrics field

Hi Product Management Could we improve our Grafana plugin and add groupBy and Metrics fields to avoid manual filling filter with this information.
This seems to be the issue we were discussing in our meeting last week.  The API portion of the Enti...
almost 3 years ago in Instana 2 Delivered

Provide search feature in custom dashboards for sharing and endpoints

The customer wants to have a search bar to pick and choose the metrics we want.
almost 3 years ago in Instana 1 Delivered