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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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change time frame resolution in Chart: Time Series.

We want to change the resolution as shown in the chart time series graphs, Instana establishes by default a granularity according to the time frame that one selects., we want to change the resolution in a personalized way, it would allow us to ana...
10 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Add group filter "Cloud Tier" for Database Servers entities

If you want to create a group with all databases with version db.r6g as example, you can't use the cloud tier as a filter. Customers can't limit the resize to his own family, since Turbonomic is not RI RDS aware.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

How can know the Consumers counts for which queue in Instana, We can only see the total here

I WANT TO want to know for each queue how many consumer there are. the count number are the total number for each queue there in instana. we can see the queue list below in instana,but I want to know how many number count for each queue have(we ca...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Name individual spring boot applications when sanitizing sensitive values

We have a customer with a lot of springboot applications and due to their sanitizing policy, we cannot see the application names in Instana and they show up as "*****", there are 3 solutions for this according to springboots own documentation: htt...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Auto Failover for TNC-A components

Currently there is no failover mechanism in any of the components in TNC-A. If any issue happens within any component like impact/probes/objectserver it needs to be handled manually. We are monitoring all these components health manually and takin...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Instana agent and ui-backend proxy settings with no proxy var or proxy config per backend

We are trying to send our instana agent to a 2nd backend on your saas for testing a feature. But our kubernetes agents are getting timeouts to your endpoint. I assume it has to do with our network setup and that our proxy has to be used to reach y...
10 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Variable handling - configurable per tab or global

Variable handling in DI is very limiting having variables that apply to all tabs in a report. Not only is it restrictive but can also be confusing with different variable types and data it applies to (especially with flow). It should be possible t...
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration