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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?
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Elasticsearch sensor is not working for Elasticsearch cluster 8.2.0

I can see from the document below that Elasticsearch sensor only supported for Elasticsearch versions from 0.17.0 to 7.16.2. I am running elasticsearch 8.2.0 and looks like it is a blocker for us to monitor elasticsearch DB traces from app. Could ...
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

DASHdb2 connection tipds for db2 on z/os

is it possible to have dash high available through a database on db2 on z/os?
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Submitted

In services developed in Java architecture, even if a technology / framework is not supported, providing endpoint / host / ip / span information without giving too much detail.

In services developed in Java architecture, even if a technology / framework is not supported, providing endpoint / host / ip / span information without giving too much detail.
18 days ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Add "180 /365 days" and/or "any number of days" for Max Observation Period

Requests:.1.Add 180 days and 365 days to max observation period2.Make it possible to set any number of days for max observation period (e.g. 14 days, 60 days, etc.) Background:.Japanese customers often have stable system environments and request l...
23 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Use Agent based App Java Profiling based on Environment Variable value

Introduction The Instana Agent offers the feature of Profiling Java Applications to find Performance Issues inside the service execution and gives a good output/hin on the code/method level. This can only be set inside the agent config globally fo...
10 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Add target support to IBM PowerVM

I received from Turbonomic & SevONE Sales Director, Technology Business Unit Data,AI&Automation Div. IBM Japan, Ltd. that IBM does not support IBM AIX and Oracle VM on Turbonomic. My client TOHOKU EPC's subisidiary TOiNX requested us to su...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1

Smart Alert should not be closed after 03 hours if still true.

Scenario:We are monitoring an endpont that should raise an alert if no calls received during 10 minutes.The problem is that the Smart Alert is being closed after 3 hours as we learned from Instana support as hard coded "give up" time even though t...
11 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add the ability to use external-secrets to the config for self-hosted POP

We do not want to put our Instana key in github and would like to be able to use external-secrets similar to how we do with the instana-agent.
16 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Planned for future release

Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Planned for future release

A new field for occurences with the original ADID

Workload (dynamic and static) increases rapidly and the end of the CP planning period got hit regularly. To avoid this issue some woradounds are needed and already supported by PIF. PIF (e.g. WAPL) can create an alias occurence ids. However, the o...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration