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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?

Instana

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Support for Instana agent in AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) & Azure ARO (Azure Red Hat OpenShift)

Two major customers wants to monitor CP4I components (API Connect, MQ, ACE, etc.) with Instana, which is supported.CP4I is installed on managed OpenShift in AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) and Azure ARO ((Azure Red Hat OpenShift).The I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Delivered

Apache Kafka Clients 3.3.x not supported by Instana Java Sensor

One of our teams found out that a lot of framework support in the instana JVM sensor is outdated. Our teams using Kafka and Aws can not use instana at the moment for monitoring their services, since the traces with those frameworks:- Apache Kafka ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Spring Kafka >= 3.1 not supported by Instana Java Sensor

One of our teams found out that a lot of framework support in the instana JVM sensor is outdated. Our teams using Kafka and Aws can not use instana at the moment for monitoring their services, since the traces with those frameworks:-- Specially fo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

AWS SQS 2.1.x not supported by Instana Java Sensor

One of our teams found out that a lot of framework support in the instana JVM sensor is outdated. Our teams using Kafka and Aws can not use instana at the moment for monitoring their services, since the traces with those frameworks:- AWS SDK 2.xar...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

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.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Delivered

Add Repository Parameter for Proxy Artefact Servers

Problem:---------- The current Instana Synthetics Helm chart is using static URLs and paths to the container images. In an Enterprise Context, it is not always possible to access external Docker repos directly. Therefore teams has to use an intern...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Delivered

Add Support for node18 with Lambda Runtime Native Tracing

Maximum Node version currently supported with Lambda is 16, as can be seen here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/243?topic=kinesis-aws-lambda-native-tracing-nodejs#supported-runtimes Node 16 is end of life 2023-09-11, with likely...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Node 0 Delivered

Instana cannot capture the IMS JDBC

Instana cannot capture the IMS JDBC calls by default if application uses this jar file.IMS uses two APIs for accessing the IMS data; the first one is JDBC 4.0 spec, and the second is the DL/I API. The IMS team confirms that JDBC implementation is ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Delivered

DB2 Log_space percentage monitoring.

In this use case the customer Julie Yates wants to monitor log_space from her DB2 servers based on percentage. Since her team has multiple DB2 servers and the log_space may differ from one database to another, the ideal monitoring for this metric ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Delivered

Set weekly maintenance window

currently i am only able to set a maintenance window from one date to another for example. 10.03 8:00 to 10.03 9:00 i would like to have the possibility to add a maintenance window every tuesday from 8:00 to 9:00 or another time. I did not find a ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered