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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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Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

About Azure MySQL Lock

Is it possible to collect Azure MySQL Lock-related metrics and set up events? Assuming no, is there a roadmap for the future?
about 2 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Define a group based on a tag

Customer wants to be able to create a scope/group based off a particular tag, and then assign a user to that group. To have RBAC based on tags.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1

The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
9 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

ability to monitor .NET Core without compiling application with nuget

Almost every customer we meet both new and current uses a mix of .NET Framework and .NET Core applications. Our biggest concern is that almost all applications written for .Net Core is developed outside the customer and they have no control over t...
6 months ago in Instana / .NET 0

Oracle Wallet Integration

Would like to have Oracle Agent fetch username and password by connecting to Oracle Wallet.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration