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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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Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Import Score cards data into Apptio BI

Customers can use the Score cards data into Apptio BI and drive Gamification initiative in theor organization. They can share the Dashboard to multiple users and team
22 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Submitted

Data Privacy: Implement a solution to filter PI data from imported tags

Customers, especially in EMEA have data privacy concern if PI data is processed by a SaaS solution. PI data maybe contained in tags Turbonomic imports from Hypervisors or cloud providers. Please implement an option when adding targets that allow i...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Enhanced Role-Base Access Control: Additive permissions resulting from multiple external group memberships

If a user is a member of multiple external groups, Turbonomic authenticates the user through the first group that was returned during the SSO or AD authentication. This requires that the use of disjoint SSO or AD Groups for Turbonomic authenticati...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Enabling tracing on Azure API Management

Azure API Management is a hybrid multi-cloud platform to manage APIs in all environments, although today we have metrics on the solution already enabled are not enough to identify the transactions that go through the platform, for this reason it i...
12 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Mule ESB version 4.x

Currently, Instana can monitoring Monitoring Mule ESB version 3.x, however, version 3.x is already out of support: Ref: Instana -> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mule-esb Ref Mulesoft: -&...
12 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

WebLogic - monitor Web deployments

We are using WebLogic servers. Recently we had an incident in which a web deployment was not loaded correctly. Currently it's not possible in Instana to alert when a web deployment is not loaded. A support ticket was made and they suggested to cre...
12 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Adding additional filter to Analytics Infrastructure view

We have two cassandra clusters with the same name (apm_cassandra) but in different openshift clusters. Because the cluster name is the same, I'm unable to filter out the specific one I'm interested in under Analyze Infrastructure -> Cassandra C...
25 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
25 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

instana enterprise operator

With the latest kubectl-intana Instana enterprise operator starting from version 1.0.0 onward, the tools with option 'version image-list' couldn't provide component info in an airgap environment or an environment without cluster connection. 1. The...
25 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted