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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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add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling Oracle

this is usefull as 1 sec graularity for DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS will rise license issue in ORACLE. To add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling ensure customer not to breach ORA license as Instana Agent Remote login and read tablespa...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Changes in roles and permissions model: make them more granular for different actions

Specific more narrow cases: Guest users with limited permissions: ID:145662 Permissions to change workflow states: ID:217178 Permissions to prioritize items: ID:62057 Permissions to view, edit fields: ID:145404 -----   Introduce gro...
about 10 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Instana support for monitoring Netezza

Customer is asking for a way to monitor traffic, load and performance for Netezza Performance Server in near real time.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

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4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Not under consideration

update the Workload Improvements Charts to include what a workload is.

Customers want to track licenses - and often think they can use the workload chart to do so - but they cannot. A separate Idea for Enhancement will be added today. If the documentation was updated to include the following - it would add clarity. A...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 1 Future consideration

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

ITP – Department Drop-Down

Expand the Department drop-down box to allow for more characters, improving visibility for all users.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Under review

The NOI included OpenLDAP should allow authentication against a local repository as well to one or more remote LDAP repos in parallel

The NOI included OpenLDAP does only support standalone OR proxy mode, but not both in parallel. Common OpenLDAP implementations do allow this hybrid mode easily. Especially technical users like impactadmin are often not allowed in LDAP repos, only...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review