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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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Implement Agent Request Buffering to Prevent Metric Outages

Dear Instana Product Team, I would like to propose the implementation of a request buffering mechanism within the Instana agent to mitigate and avoid metric outages during periods of network instability or high latency. Problem Statement Currently...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter

Title: Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter Detail: We want Instana to capture IMS calls which are maded from client side with WM EntireX Adapter. We would like that client adapter to be supported from version 10.7.0.21.1826 and above.
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Submitted

Encryption of credentials in configuration

It would be desirable if the credentials configured in Alert Channels were not displayed in plain text. This makes it possible for anyone with access to Instana to go into the configuration and see the credentials (username and password) in plain ...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

monitoring specific to kubeapiserver, kube-controll-manager and scheduler

Monitoring specific to kubeapiserver, kube-controll-manager and scheduler. PMR (TS016949061)
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

We are looking for the oAuth authentication at ObjectServer level. Refer the IBM Case for the same request TS016022219

As per our company standards, we need to have the oAuth authentication
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

It's better to have the percent memory utilized for a process (e.g., Integration Server process in IBM ACE)

We want to capture the percentage memory utilized for any integration server process. This will help in identifying the max. memory used process so that support team can take appropriate action on that process.
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Update kubernetes certificate when an instance is upgraded (OVA only issue)

I recently had an issue with a large financial customer where I made a license change and it caused the instance to show that none of the targets were validated any longer. After some troubleshooting, I found a certificate had expired. We worked w...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 9 Not under consideration

Instana console showing servers in offline state

There happend a case where a few servers had instana agent stopped running and they stopped showing up on the console infrastructure monitoring. There should be a way in the instana console where we can see the server being shown in the map or in ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Monitor AWS Internet GW

This will provide metric collections in AWS for internet traffic
7 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 1 Future consideration

bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana

Want the ability to bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana. Some of our competitors have solutions that have out of the box dashboards for specific GCP services. But, they also provide the ability to specify a configuration to bring in metrics from ...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration