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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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Allow OracleDB sensor data captured to be interrogated.

At present the information exposed by the OracleDB sensor is fairly limited. Furthermore, it is not possible to analyse the data in any detail. For example it shows top 10 SQL by CPU, but you can not search by SQL ID and see how the SQL has perfor...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration

OracleDB sensor to work for Oracle Standard Edition as well as Enterprise Edition

Currently the Instana OracleDB sensor requires Oracle Enterprise Edition to access the full functionality, as this requires access to some views which in turn require Enterprise Edition to avoid any breaches of Oracle licence. The enhancement woul...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add Kafka as an Alert Channel

Some customer as CA GIP want to collect all the data on a Topic Kafka to be consumed by other applications/services. We can do that with a middleware and a webhook, but having a real alert channel to send data directly with custom payload.
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Add Instana API for application event and log messges

We have clients need to get useful info from Instana API, currently there is no API for Application -> Log Message and Application -> Error Message, can you please help to add those APIs?
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Podman support on zLinux

Currently, the Podman beta is supported only on x86 Linux. St.of CA has a very large zLinux infra base ->> we need Podman support for zLinux
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add support for pulling Kafka consumer lag time in Amazon MSK sensor

Currenlty we pull subset of metrics from what cloudwatch exposes for MSK, Customer requested that we pull Consumer lag time as well as this is key metrics they use for kafka performance trending.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Oracle DB - Instance status and Listener Status

I didn't find any parameters to set these alerts for Oracle. Below are the statuses required. These are very key and basic for creating alerts on Oracle DB. · ASM Disk Space Alerts [WARNING], [CRITICAL]· Database Instance Status [UP],[DOWN]· Datab...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Queue-Level Message Size Visibility

Instana can enhance its monitoring capabilities by introducing the ability to collect metrics for the message sizes at the queue level, complementing the existing feature of bytes received at the channel level.
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

DB2 - HADR_FLAGS metric to be Monitored and Alerted

Hi Team!According to Instana documentation, sounds "HADR_FLAGS" metric is not collected, correct ?So when a tablespaces is invalid or error state on the Standby database, the HADR_FLAGS field will displaythe value STANDBY_TABLESPACE_ERROR. Monitor...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Future consideration

DB2 Alerting and Monitoring for Active Databases and Instance.

Hi Team!I can´t find Alerting to monitor if a Database is active or if an Instance is Up.Acording to DB2 documentation MON_GET_INSTANCE table function we need the follow elements to proper monitor Instance and Databases. SQLM_DB2_ACTIVE 0 The data...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration