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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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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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Policy duration is not allowing to set a time value more than 2hrs.

Policy duration is not allowing to set a time value more than 2hrs. We have some requirement to set a time value more than 2hrs. eg: We have critical interfaces where we want to monitor if the utilization is above 60% for 1 week out of 1 week trig...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

support for extracting traces from multiple instances (running on two different ports)

Since theMSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host.We can extract either the default port without the configuration or the non default port which is configured via co...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Improve usability of Oracle sensor to diagnose problems

I had an interesting conversation with a customer regarding Oracle monitoring. Customer is Radial. I’m going to open an Idea, but wanted to pass along the info. The customer has other tools today that they use for monitoring Oracle. He described a...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Configure MTLS for IBMMQ

The Use case behind this is that the client needs to configure MTLS for IBMMQ, and needs to provide the certificates (and password/secret) via JKS files. Basically trying to accomplish this in the helm chart: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / MQ / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Better UI for Smart Alerts and Alert channels

We have discovered that without a rigid and detailed naming convention for smart alerts (including global smart alerts), we are encountering many issues as administrators to figure out which alerts are being fired, and which ones belong to which A...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Smart Alert routing

Currently we have several custom payload values (mainly K8s Service and K8s Pod Labels) which we send along with alerts to PagerDuty, and in pagerDuty, routing logic is applied based on these custom payload values. As discussed, it would be great ...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

EUM Geography granular representation

We have a custom GeoDB Database that provides detailed geo location for each request from the EUM and mobile apps configured. These include longitude and latitude coordinates (just like Maxmind's GeoLite2 database), as well as finely granular name...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Capgemini needs to monitor their applications running on Microsoft PowerFX (no code/low code programming)

I am working with a client named Capgemini that needs visiblity on their z-hybrid applications. During our scoping session we discovered their developers develop applications via Microsoft PowerFX (no code/low code programming) which sits on top o...
10 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Additional Topic Metrics for Kafka

Customer monitors Kafka performance based off lag with the topics. Right now we have bytes metrics along with messages in but they need visibility for the Messages Out metric too. Metrics needed: Messages Out Lag (difference in Messages in and out)
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Report offset lag for kafka consumers

I created a library/custom utility that monitors the kafka consumers and records the offset lags across our event driven architecture. It is further integrated with LogDNA and slack which helps to send alerts to the squads for any offset lags in a...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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