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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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Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

In the "Oracle RAC" configuration, we would like to be able to monitor without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname."

Instana's monitoring of "Oracle RAC" only supports "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." Therefore, we would like to be able to monitor in the "Oracle RAC" configuration without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." There are "Oracle RAC" configurations w...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

FTP monitoring in ace

In ACE, for many clients, we have numerous flows that receive input from files, especially via FTP. However, we have noticed that Instana is unable to trace these inputs. It would be beneficial to monitor this scenario as well.
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Under review

More than a project or a project list in Openstack Agent configuration

We are using Openstack Instana agent to monitor IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) in the agent configuration we need to specify a single project and consequently to see only the Computer Instances related to this projet. In order to have a co...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
15 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Under review

Extending Instana JAVA-Sensor to collect additional metrics from IBM ELM JVM's

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review