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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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While WebSphere supports MFA redirection but WebGUI is not tested nor supported

Currently WAS Security configurations (such as authentication) are strictly configured at the WebSphere level. From our discussion with our WAS team we understand now that for MFA, Websphere would only need to be configured to redirect to either a...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support Helm as installation Method for instana operator

We are using the instana-operator to setup and maintain instana. For all of our other components we are using Flux to sync our Git Repository to our Cluster. For most of our Components we are using helm to install them to our cluster. Instana cure...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6

Custom Dashboard Trafficlight widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure 11

HAProxy backend to show more than 300 backend servers

Currently Instana shows 299 backend servicer and 1 Frondend servers. Our environment has more than ~1000 Servers. This feature is to increase and show more than 300 backend and Frontend servers.
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Under review

Instead of INSTANA_IGNORE=true, customer would like to have an opt-in approach for monitoring java processes

We have a customer that is trying to monitor java. By default, Instana auto-instruments everything within the kubernetes cluster. The customer doesn't want everything instrumented because it can have an impact on the application performance. I tol...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Needs more information

Monitoring WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

A representative customer in LAC has its core business based on this enterprise bus, it is required to have specialized monitoring on this platform. Ref: https://ei.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/
3 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Submitted

Self-hosted synthetic pop deployment via stanctl - "stanctl pop up"

Implement`stanctl pop up` including k3s installation.
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0

Create public Data Insight Reports

Hi team, regarding the Data Insight reports, at the moment you can display them if you login into DI appliance first. However, some of our leadership team doesn't have credentials to login into SevOne, so for that reason we would like to have the ...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Retention of JVM data after change in PID/ID

When an Application release, update/change, or outage occurs, all JVM data for the process ID running prior is lost in Instana. This has been confirmed as correct functionality within Instana through ticket "TS013919515" "It is expected behaviour ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Add support for multiple SaaS Clients connecting to SaaS instance

Today, one can only connect one SaaS Client to a Turbo SaaS instance. But there are examples where customers have multiple datacenters that do not have network connectivity between them. Because of this, they need a SaaS Client in each datacenter ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release