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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?

Instana

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Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
2 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
1 day ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
1 day ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Retrigger open events after a maintenance window

The use of a maintenance window is to prevent events/issues/alerts during a period which systems, transactions or metrics are expected to go outside the normal range of values/behavior. After the maintenance window, the event/alerts/smart alert sh...
2 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
7 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
7 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
7 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
7 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Need maturity in Custom Edition

We need to significantly improve the maturity of the Custom Edition offering. This includes: documented backup/restore procedures Sizing tool for HA configurations Tuning guidelines for the key components (datastores, filler, etc.). Ideally, auto-...
about 19 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need improved scalability for Standard Edition

The 3 server configuration of Standard Edition has improved scalability. It is at the point where the number of MVS support will support a large number of our customers (2250 MVS). However, Standard Edition falls short when it comes to the scalabi...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted