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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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Create equivalent reporting for Instana based on Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) ITM agents and Z Enterprise agents

ITM and TCR are deprecated so customers who have moved away from ITM to Instana no longer have the reporting functionality
7 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Workloads at Kirkland being seasonal, max observation period is needed to be 180 days

Kirkland would like to set the max observation period to 180 days from current max allowable 90 days.
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Enhance Instana Standard Edition to make airgapped package more available

Affected: All airgapped customers, like goverent sector, military and public sector who usually run Instana in Airgapped environment would intereted to use Instana Standard Edition and prefer the airgapped can be easily available more easily Descr...
17 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Submitted

Support of IBM ACE on Windows

Supporting IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) on Windows for Monitoring Adding support for monitoring IBM ACE on Windows would greatly benefit development and QA teams who primarily use Windows environments during local testing and early-stage deplo...
11 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

enable the feature to enlarge the column in Cost sharing

Issue: customer cannot enlarge this first column resulting into the statement name are truncated. Issue is happening at : Go to CloudabilityGo to Organize -> Cost sharingGo to Explorerwe are able to decrease and increase the length of first col...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Self-Service capability to Postpone Scheduled Parking Shutdown

Introduce a self-service feature similar to Azure’s "Auto-shutdown" mechanism. Before a scheduled VM parking event, send an email notification to the designated VM owner. This email should offer the option to postpone the shutdown by 1 hour, 2 hou...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Submitted

Add a "PersistentVolumes" column to the Kubernetes Clusters view for quicker visibility and access to PV details and metrics

This enhancement would significantly improve observability and troubleshooting by making PersistentVolumes (PVs) immediately visible at the cluster level. Currently, users have to dig through multiple views to find storage-related information. Sur...
14 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
14 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need to trace core banking application based on Temenos

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Temenos software as a core banking application and they miss tracing of the application. There are few traces: - com.temenos.t24 - com.temenos.tafj (com.temenos.tafj.runtime.statements.jStatements:READ) pleas...
10 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted