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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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Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
2 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Add an option to trigger Synthetic Monitoring alerts only when failures occur in multiple locations

Allow alert rules to require failures from at least X different locations within a set time window before triggering. This reduces false positives from localized issues, minimizes alert noise, and ensures alerts focus on problems likely to impact ...
2 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
13 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
6 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
8 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
8 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

WebMethods Integration Server internall calls filtering

Hello, Currently there is a functionality that enables monitoring of all WebMethods Integration Server internall calls https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.300?topic=machine-configuring-java-sensor#enabling-internal-service-calls-...
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Allow configuration of custom OIDC scopes in Instana SSO settings (e.g. entitlement_group)

Currently Instana’s OIDC integration only supports specifying the discovery URL. Instana always requests the default scopes (openid, profile, email). In our environment, critical authorization information (entitlement_group, authorization_group, s...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Support for FrankenPHP

FrankenPHP, a PHP server built on top of Caddy, was recently adopted by the PHP Foundation (see https://les-tilleuls.coop/en/blog/frankenphp-is-now-officially-supported-by-the-php-foundation and https://github.com/php/frankenphp), and it can be us...
about 18 hours ago in Instana / PHP 0 Submitted

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