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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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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...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6

Instana Mule ESB V4.x Support

It is critical for the Mule ESB sensor to support more current versions of the product. Specifically v 4.3.0, 4.4.0 and 4.5.0. The only current support for the sensor is version 3.X, Mule 3 is in "extended support" and Mule 4.1.x and 4.2.x are end...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Add the Hours Idle field to VMs

The customer, HCSC, desires to create policies on cloud VMs based on how many hours they have been idle. Currently, IBM Turbonomic only supports the Hours Idle parameter for PaaS Synapse databases.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Showing the Revision/Version of Azure Windows on Turbonomic Entity UI

Currently, in the Turbonomic Entity UI, "Windows" is shown under "OS and Software." However, in the Azure Console, "Operating system" is displayed as "Windows (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter)," showing details like the type of Windows OS and its R...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Azure Cosmo DB Storage

Instana does not analyze the behavior of Azure Cosmo DB Storage, it is necessary to be able to detect if there is a storage problem and alert about this.
7 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Data Insight - Support multiple owners for Reports RBAC

Currently Reports RBAC includes Public and RO permission (across all users.) A business issue arises when a Public RO (Production) Report needs to be modified while the (single) Owner is not available. This forces an admin user to manually make a ...
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Provide Customers the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget

Customer would like the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget. For example, one need for this would be for the Customer to set the country to "Oman" and also set the User ID to a ...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Add support for Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi is one of the popular storage vendor widely used across enterprises and currently there is no target integration available.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

License expiration notification should be configurable

Currently, all users accessing Instana will get a notification that the license is about to expire 30 days prior to license end date. This notification should be configurable, allowing admins to enable and configure it. Configuration of who gets t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration

Automatic infrastructure correlation update when HA service ip changed

Basically, infrastructure correlation works good. However, we have faced a case that the correlation is unlinked. We suspect that the phenomenon occurred when a take-over of HA (high availability) happened. In our case, we use Db2 HADR and TSA (Ti...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration