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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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Custom Dashboards: Creating calculated values and then plotting them

In custom dashboards today, we can't seem to create a calculated value and then plot it as a single line. For example: 1) Go to dashboards and create a new time series widget. 2) Use data source: Infrastructure & Platforms 3) For metrics, u...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

IsBank wants Instana to support Oracle ODP (Oracle.DataAccess.Client) library version 4.122.x and above. Current support is 4.121.

We are experiencing some problems in monitoring the card system side, one of our most critical systems, on Instana. While the Oracle ODP (Oracle.DataAccess.Client) library version on the relevant servers is 4.122.1, Instana supports 4.121.2 and be...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

Springboot-Sensor: Datastore connections to be monitored

Hello, the "jboss as"-sensor collects information about connections to datastores and provides it on the related dashboard (see example on attached screenshot).We need the same for springboot, therefore please add the capability to springboot-sens...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Delivered

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8 series

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for 6.0 and 6.7 series. Support for DSE 6.8 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 3 Delivered

Give Instana Agent helm chart a possiblity to configure the path to containerd.sock

Instana Agent is expecting the containerd.sock in this directory on Kubernetes nodes: /run/containerd/containerd.sock As we are using an RKE2 K8s cluster containerd.sock is located in /run/k3s/containerd/containerd.sock instead which results in in...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

IBM Observability by Instana

Hello, I want to submit a new idea (cosmectic idea) about for the field "age". We have only a format with hours but we are solliciting to have a new format with "days_hours_minutes" instead.For the moment, minutes are troncated. So 1 hour and 43 m...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 5 Delivered

Context-sensitive tag picker on the infrastructure map

please make the tag-picker on the infrastructure map context-sensitive: With an active dynamic focus filter it should only show tags that are defined on matching agents.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

Add "Connection Pool" metric for JBoss EAP 7

I need to monitor the http connection pool usage on some jboss eap 7 instances. I am looking for the following metrics:- available in EAP 7.0.9 & 7.1. The runtime statistics can be obtained via JMX MBeans org.xnio:type=Xnio,provider="nio",work...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Delivered

Official terraform support

We are managing all of our infra aspects as a code principle, because of that we would like to have instana terraform provider in order to create our alerts & dashboards as a code
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

Support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x and v3.10.x

We need support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x (customer currently have 3.9.13) and v3.10.x. RabbitMQ v3.9.x is currently much more important but for a futureproof v3.10.x should be supported as well.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 1 Delivered