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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 metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Needs more information

Ability to set a Maximum Utilization and Request Constraint for nodes in OCP/K8s clusters

As a customer, I need to be able to set a maximum utilization and requests I don't want to pass for nodes, regarding the sum of all requests of all pods running there. Use case is: for production environment, I want to be sure to have enough capac...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Planned for future release

We are requesting that the DWC time field support the more conventional 12:00 - 12:59 AM/PM and/or 24 hour clock value.

An inconsistency was discovered in the DWC Workload Designer that impacts time fields, such as Earliest Start, Latest Start, Deadline, etc. We are unable to specify any value between 12:01 and 12:59, whether AM or PM. Specifying 12:00 is allowed. ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Application Topology Definition - Add support for missing entity types, e.g. Azure App Services entities

Application topology Definition currently only support the following entity types: Business Application Service Application Component Namespace Virtual Machine Workload Controller Database Database Server Other entity types such as App Component S...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Planned for future release

iOs with Netfox library

We propose that Instana consider supporting the NetFox library for iOS applications. This would involve ensuring that Instana's monitoring capabilities can work seamlessly alongside NetFox without causing conflicts or errors in the application's o...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Make Component discovery of fabric extender consistent

For Cisco Nexus Fabric extenders(FEX) attached to Nexus N9K switches (even with recent firmware), sometimes fabric extender elements were not discovered and the chassis element was not discovered. on other hosts, only the chassis element but no fa...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

Instana support for monitoring Netezza

Customer is asking for a way to monitor traffic, load and performance for Netezza Performance Server in near real time.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Automatic use of certificate for Infrastructure management

When accessing Infrastructure management, a self-signed certificate is currently used. Infrastructure automation appears to discovery a certificate from the OpenShift cluster and works well, but Infrastructure management reports a the site as "not...
4 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

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