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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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Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
11 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

SSO Validation for Targetprocess for a token

The security that is currently set up does not meet standards and is concerning that users can access when they shouldn't. For example if a service account token is shared and then a particular user leaves the company because the service account i...
5 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment.

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment. In an OpenShift environment, K8Sensor runs as three PODs by default. The first deployed pod is designated as the leader pod and is responsible for s...
5 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 1 Submitted

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11 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
22 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Hide Tabs/Reports related to unused CSP

We have several CSP and non-CSP integrations, but not a single one to OCI. Despite that, OCI is "randomly"* present in various forms: - Optimize > Rightsizing - Apptio BI reports - Cloudability reports - Settings > Workload planning preferen...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
23 days ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2 Submitted