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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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Call topology diagrams between applications

Dear colleagues, Customer asks for applications dependency diagrams that would have additional options to show connections to other defined applications perspectives (excluding "All Services"). Currently there is only option to show the connection...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Need integration with BMC Remedy

Dear colleagues, customer is asking for integration with service desk BMC Remedy, it REST API, but Generic Webhook format doesn't fit the Remedy API. Here is the example for creating incident: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/itsm2002/example-of-using-th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Needs more information

Ability to select multiple Business Dimensions and use 'Views' to filter by Cloud Provider.

We are unable to utilize the cost sharing model as it does not allow for selecting multiple dimensions (i.e. Not Set or untagged bucket). We are also unable to utilize views by AWS, OCI, GCP or Azure to ensure only one of the providers can be redi...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Enforce Message bus probe REST API Listener to send HSTS response header

Currently the web server service for REST API listener of the message bus probe does not enforce sending HSTS header to clients as required in RFC xxx. This has been detected as an security issue at client Datev during a pentest and prevents us fr...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Situation Update Forwarder (SUF) requires the installation of old libraries

Customer would like IBM to update the SUF component to use libraries that are currently available as part of the operating system such as SLES15 (or RHEL8). For example, neither libstdc++.so.5 nor libstdc++33 is available in the Legacy Module for ...
about 1 month ago in ITM/IBM APM 1

ADM disable load of actuals into closed months

The possibility to disable load of actuals into closed months can prevent loss of actuals that is currently happening by design in 2 different ways:    1. As Cost Object Ref Data is taken from last Period of CT that is open AND at th...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

.Net core Windows service should auto discover without adding the Nuget package(Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows).

In order to setup the monitoring for .Net core Windows service we need to install Nuget package (Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows) and rebuild/publish the application which requires a new release and therefore we need a solution which will au...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 5 Not under consideration