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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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Alerts for JVM Total Thread count

Could you please let know if we can create an alert if the total thread count is greater than a certain value
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

IBM Tivoli Management Services need to support Linux on Z monitoring agent for IBM Netcool/Impact

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and we want to make use of this footprint to run ITM monitoring agent for Netcool/ Impact without having to acquire additional hardware
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Functionality already exists

IBM Tivoli Management Services need to support Linux on Z monitoring agent for Tivoli Netcool/Omnibus

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and we want to make use of this footprint to run ITM monitoring agent for Omnibus without having to acquire additional hardware
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Functionality already exists

Ping-checks: Add option "HTTP-method"

Hello, we are using your ping checks and just want to implement them more efficiently. Therefore it would be very helpful if we would have an option for "HTTP method", e.g. GET, POST, PUT, and so on. And also the option "body" is needed then proba...
about 2 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Start/stop instana agent looking for environment variable not set and maxdepth flag inside find which doesn't exist on AIX clients

Everytime an instana agent when stopped or started throws up this error on two environment variables not being set. JAVA_MAX_MEM' and 'JAVA_OPTS'. Assuming these needs to be defined in the setenv file. These variables needs to be set and exported ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Adding support EntityFramework Core 6

Provide the same functionality to EntityFramework Core 6 as it exists for: Entity Framework .NET >= 2, >= 3.
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for MSSQL instances

Currently, any multi-tenant setup on SQL (aka SQL Instances) is not supported. The request is to add support - and the ideal solution would be to allow Turbo to enumerate all SQL instances via the SQL Server Browsing service.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Functionality already exists

Add (java) context to logs

We're currently writing java logs with logback/slf4j. Using the logstash ArgumentsJsonProvider in our logback.xml this allows us to extend the log message with context information like stack_traces, logger_name, log level but also custom informati...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Edit the evaluation granularity for a smart alert

The minimum evaluation granularity for a smart alert is limited at 5 mins, We need to change it so that we get alerts related to slow calls etc which may not persist for more than 5 minutes. Below is a real time scenario. When will a person be ale...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists