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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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ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
4 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Define a group based on a tag

Customer wants to be able to create a scope/group based off a particular tag, and then assign a user to that group. To have RBAC based on tags.
1 day ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

About Azure MySQL Lock

Is it possible to collect Azure MySQL Lock-related metrics and set up events? Assuming no, is there a roadmap for the future?
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

When sending alerts from Instana to Opsgenie, please send them in plain text.

This is a customer feature request. Please review it. The related case is TS016826822. When Instana is introduced, the alert transmission structure is "Instana -> Opsgenie -> Slack". When sending a notification message from Instana to Opsgen...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Duplication of EUM Auto Instrumentation

Currently EUM Auto Instrumentation does not check the preceding EUM javascript entry. In our topology, some requests go through the multiple proxy and EUM javascript is duplicated like bellow. Do we need to check the preceding entry? [root@itz-310...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Monitor disk IOPs on VMs

To get events on issues with disk IOPs on VMs
1 day ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
28 days ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Under review

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
4 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted