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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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Sync Team Iterations (Sprints) in Date order

Ideally, the sprints that are auto-generated should sync back to Jira in the correct order. Instead, we put undue inconvenience of having to rearrange all the sprints after they are sync'd to Jira. This is not a good user experience.
2 months ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 0 Under review

Multi factor Authentication

"Background:Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enhances the security of an application by providing an added layer(s) of authentication mechanism. The authentication mechanism can be any of the following types: what the user knows (security questio...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

iOs with Netfox library

We propose that Instana consider supporting the NetFox library for iOS applications. This would involve ensuring that Instana's monitoring capabilities can work seamlessly alongside NetFox without causing conflicts or errors in the application's o...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Extend Topology Manager to be able to run Remote Observers for network discovery

With the introduction of Net-Disco and App-Disco plug-ins in ASM v1.1.8 (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS9LQB_1.1.8/ProductOverview/r_asm_whatsnew.html#r_asm_whatsnew) , its not possible to run all components on single host as it wou...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Extend time window to more than 120 min

Hello, Currently, when creating an event with built-in host metrics, the time window is limited to 120 min We received the following request, which is not currently possible with this limitation : - trigger an alert when a filesystem is > 70% f...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Message Bus Probe: token with kafka topic name in rulesfile

Today it is possible to add multiple topics for a given probe installation. However, there is no token available in the rulesfile to check from which topic a given message came from. This means, if I have a common kafka server with topics that req...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

ITP – Custom Department Drop-Down

In my company we limit access to cost center of own responsibility. We have cost center managers with cost center reponsibilities in different Hierarchies. Those don't have no possibility to review all cost centers in their responsibility with Pla...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

WebMethods

We need more support for WebMethods from Instana. WebMethods API Gateway 10.11 ( top priority ) WebMethods Developer Portal 10.11 WebMethods BigMemory Max 4.3 (Terracotta) WebMethods Centra Site 10.11
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration