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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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Instana on Openshift to use default ingress certificate

Hi, We install instana on openshift on my customer environment, customer wants that instana to use default ingress certificate for itself and not give tls.key and tls.crt files again on instana installation on openshift container platform.Because ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Command Line tools to remove decommissioned agents

Customer uses APM for years and he is looking for a solution on removing decommissioned, old agents in an automated way. Based on APM documentation, old, decommissioned agents disappear from APM only when these agent instances do not appear in any...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Instana Google Cloud platform support for python slim buster image

Hello, I have been trying to integrate instana with GCP and our project uses python's slim buster image. I tried it with Alpine image but a lot of our dependencies are not being supported by it, like PYPI wheels, pycryptodomex, etc Please provide ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Python 2 Not under consideration

XML names monitoring in IBM DataPower using APM

We would like to use the DataPower agent from IBM Application Performance Management to monitor the "XML names" usage as described in here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/what-are-xmlnames-and-why-am-i-running-out-space-them-my-ibm-websphere-da...
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Manage agent keys inside Instana UI

Follow on from this ticket where it was necessary to rotate the Agent Keys this feature request is for the capability to manage Agent Keys from the Instana UI in order to limit the visibility and usage of keys to specific teams or parts ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Correlation-id based logging approach when provisioning infrastructure

New correlation-id should be created for each API call/request and should be carried forward to the subsequent internal calls to the other microservices. All logs should be prefixed with the correlation-id (supported by many logging libraries) In ...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Enable agent to connect Oracle database by using wallet.

Oracle DB is located at cloud and using wallet to connect to DB is mandatory.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

need agent pour docker windows installed on host windows

need agent pour docker windows installed on host windows, ticket support Request #28566
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

WebGUI 8.1 : Column add comments directly to that field without right click tool

Users requested to have “new” field (similar to Journal), so that it is possible to add comments directly to that field, without opening new window (right click tool). According to requirement it should work like in excel sheet. Additionally, user...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

ParkMyCloud API Enhancement to append users to teams

All could benefit. This enhancement would allow anyone using the API to provide user access to teams via the API, without having to also include all users who already have access.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration