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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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Need ability to select single event with multiple threshold on same metric for different disk mount

Currently in Instana you cannot create more than one threshold on same metric. We get this message "No more than one threshold can be defined on the same metric." Use case: Customer wants to create a single event when disk mount usage exceeds 90% ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Not under consideration

Propagate pipeline feedback release markers to underlying infrastructure

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=capabilities-pipeline-feedback The pipeline feedback allows to set a release marker on- Global- Application Perspective- Service- Service within an application perspective Only in cas...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Custom Log Library Tracing - Collecting multiple attributes through Instana Java log.SDK.

Now we can collect log.message of custom log library through log.SDK. But it can collect only one attribute (log.message) and you can not collect multiple attributes. our client's custom log library has several attributes such as bellow. com.clien...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Instana presents resource usage additionally display information from a cluster perspective.

The Ccstomer has presented their requirements for monitoring VMware content. Currently, Instana presents resource usage from a data center perspective, but they wish to additionally display information from a cluster perspective
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

Java ECS Collector on Nginx docker image

From support case TS013962979 "We explained to the customer that Java ECS Collector in an Nginx Docker Image is not supported at the moment, however, they would like to try https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws...
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Require Alert Time Window Condition for more than 120 min

We have a custom MQ alert to create an alarm, if messages are not received for more than 12 hours in IBM APM. We have created similar alert in Instana, however alert time window condition is not allowing to add condition of more than 120 mins. We ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Define custom alert for MQ Last put time like IBM APM

We have similar event in IBM APM solution and Instana is collecting the same metrics but cannot define custom alert on the same (Last put time not showing in custom alert). Instana infrastructure don’t support to use non metrics data(numeric) as c...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Support an alternate/multiple authentication methods

Our team/project, ISV is the underlying function behind w3id and ibmid. We would like to use ISV based SSO for authenticating to our tenants. In a scenario we have production issue with the ISV tenant that is used for the Instana SSO, we may not b...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under consideration

Add email in CC as alert channel

Operation team keeps tracks of who is receiving the alert, at the moment once there is an alert, single emails are sent to each email. It would be preferable to have a main email and a list of emails in CC.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Not under consideration

Provide more configurable items for Kafka topic settings in Instana self-hosted operator

During we deploy self-hosted Instana backend in kubenertes via Instana operator, the kafka topics will be created and configured with a couple of specific settings which are likely hardcoded, eg. retention.ms, segment.ms.When customers need to mak...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration