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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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Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
28 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

ability to monitor .NET Core without compiling application with nuget

Almost every customer we meet both new and current uses a mix of .NET Framework and .NET Core applications. Our biggest concern is that almost all applications written for .Net Core is developed outside the customer and they have no control over t...
3 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

NodeJS npm @instana/collector – deno support

Currently, there isn't native support for the @instana/collector package in Deno, as Deno handles npm packages differently than Node.js, particularly when it comes to lifecycle scripts like the ones required by the @instana/collector. These script...
15 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted

Support for HCI Fusion

Hi Team, Customers are interested to integrate HCI Fusion with Turbonomic. As of now Target is not supported. Thank you.
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

For JVM Monitoring customer needs ability to provide application memory leak analysis, lock contentions, process crash analysis

NSB is a Banking customer for Srilanka territory. They are managing thier core banking application with Instana. using Instana for core banking app. Instana Backend (docker development) Deployed in OS: Redhat server 8.8 (Ootpa) Number of reporting...
16 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

How to set a password for the KeyStores and TrustStores when deploying IWA with Kubernetes/Helm Charts.

The password used to create the KeyStore and TrustStore is randomly generated. Even though it can be retrieved from the env variable SSL_PASSWORD or decoding the stash (sth) file, a facility must be provided to set it to a desired password. The fo...
17 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Support boards with many-to-many relations for vertical and horizontal lines

Customers who wants to create certain boars, however values many to many are unavailable if other lane has also many-to-many relations - for example Period and Teams - then 2 boards needs to be created

Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
19 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted