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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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Kafka Sensor: Support Kafka Kraft Deployments

In Kafka Zookeeper deployments are deprecated since Confluent kafka 7.5 https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-metadata/zk-production.html Even though IBM Instana Kafka Agent supports Confluent Kafka 7.7.1 according to Support Sheet http...
28 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Instana Smart Alerts Time Thresholds

Current Smart Alert Evaluation granularity scale is between 1 - 30 minutes.We would need alerts much sooner, 10 seconds would be ideal. Can this scale minimum be changed to less than 1 minute?
28 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Uninstallation instructions in the main documentation.

At present, the instructions provided at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-network-auto/1.1.x do not provide uninstallation instructions. While maybe not the most critical of things, it might help to include some uninstallation steps to remove an ...
20 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Submitted

Ability to pull in credits from the Vendor

We've switched from CloudHealth to Cloudability because of some capabilities. However one thing we lost in the swap on platforms is the ability to show credits from the vendor. CloudHealth ingests this from AWS and Azure automatically, It would be...

Support for Node.JS Sensor on native IBM i Agent

This is beneficial to expand tracing to applications utilizing Node.JS.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Submitted

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Enable the view of Plan name from IBM CSV billing file

We are looking to get the data about the instance type / family / Category to create reports to track GPU usage in IBMC via Cloudability.As much as I looked the Plan name contain this data that will enable us to create that report. Because this vi...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

New Plug-in: Kafka Job Type and Dashboard

Kafka has become an integral part of the financial services technology stack, enabling real-time event streaming across diverse lines of business. From fraud detection to regulatory compliance, its applications are vast and impactful. However, the...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Support tracing of RMI calls in the same JVM.

Our information system rely a lot of on RMI calls between components ( EJB). To optmize those calls we have deployed multiple components in the same JVM. When a component A calls component B in the same JVM, INSTANA does not trace the call to B co...
12 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted