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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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Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
2 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Submitted

Enable Redis monitoring with certificates for Instana

Instana's current monitoring config the Redis instance does not use credentials to ensure monitor & retrieve data security, which means it does not support certificates. The lack of certificates support may become a shortcoming in future secur...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Automation 3 Planned for future release

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
5 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Language Expansion

At this time, only English and Japanese are offered as language settings in Apptio. It would be extremely valuable for the Spanish language to be added as well.
5 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
6 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Show host to host connections in Topology Resource groups

Currently there is a limitation of showing host to host connection from topology resource goups, but with the alerts correlation we are saying the resource group is showing the events getting correlated based on topology, but in the group view all...
25 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Future consideration

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review