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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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For the MQ Channel Status metric in Instana dashboard widget, there is no filter option for channel status

To check the MQ Channel Status for the channels with erroneous status codes
8 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL"

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL" instances.The customer wants to monitor all IBM Cloud services on Instana, but Instana doesn't support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databas...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Future consideration

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment.

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment. In an OpenShift environment, K8Sensor runs as three PODs by default. The first deployed pod is designated as the leader pod and is responsible for s...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Top Hosts By System Uptime

Today, we have the host uptime information when looking at the 'Started At' data when drilling into an individual host. We would like to see the top hosts based on uptime duration on a custom consolidated dashboard so we can see which one(s) have ...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

View and download the SUM/AVG of Pod's CPU/Memory usage based on K8s Namespace

The customer is checking the usage by Kubernetes namespace using "kubectl top pod -n namespace" and said that this function is essential. And they want to download the result of the command as an excel file, etc. They request that the following fu...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

[python-sensor] - Instrumentation

Please add support for the following python libraries: - stomp.py (Stomp QA) - aioamqp (AMQP) - zeep (SOAP) - spyne (SOAP Server) Currently they are not supported.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Python 3 Future consideration

Filter conditions should be private / shared by certain permissions

Instana users can "save, edit, and delete filters". https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-filtering-dynamic-focus And it is 'shared' with all users automatically. But if a customer plans to accept Instana corporat...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Publish version history for instana agent and k8sensor

When upgrading to a new version of the static instana agent we have no idea what changes there actually are in the new version. We would like to know what we're getting ourselves into, and to be able to chose whether to upgrade or not. Additionall...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration