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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

Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Enable Database job type to authenticate to the Microsoft SQL Server DB via Domain service accounts

During work to meet an internal business security requirement the expectation to use Domain accounts was defined as a solution to mitigate the use of local service accounts within the Microsoft SQL Server DB security table. However, upon further i...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Related Events: Do not suggest new groups covered by a deployed pattern

When new groups are discovered that match an existing pattern, they are not assigned to the existing pattern. This forces the users to move the pattern to new and then to deploy it again, so that new groups are assigned to the exsting pattern. The...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AIOps should support display of pre-existing grouping

In the 25 years or so that Netcool has been around, there have been developed several means by which events can be correlated and grouped, not only by us, but by customers alike. It is obvious that rather than try and replace with AI/ML we should ...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Debug Output of Tokens in Probes should be in lexiacal order

"Older" Probes like mttrapd show the received Tokens in the Log File in a meaningful sorting. Younger Probes like MessageBus or ews list the tokens in a apparently random order. Customer uses the debug logs for documentation of different event typ...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review