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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...
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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Queue-Level Message Size Visibility

Instana can enhance its monitoring capabilities by introducing the ability to collect metrics for the message sizes at the queue level, complementing the existing feature of bytes received at the channel level.
8 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

DB2 - HADR_FLAGS metric to be Monitored and Alerted

Hi Team!According to Instana documentation, sounds "HADR_FLAGS" metric is not collected, correct ?So when a tablespaces is invalid or error state on the Standby database, the HADR_FLAGS field will displaythe value STANDBY_TABLESPACE_ERROR. Monitor...
8 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Future consideration

DB2 Alerting and Monitoring for Active Databases and Instance.

Hi Team!I can´t find Alerting to monitor if a Database is active or if an Instance is Up.Acording to DB2 documentation MON_GET_INSTANCE table function we need the follow elements to proper monitor Instance and Databases. SQLM_DB2_ACTIVE 0 The data...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Capture parameters of dynamic SQL statement for JDBC

Dynamic SQL is normally writing a query with parameters, and it will be very helpful to show the actual value of the parameters of SQL statement during problem diagnose. Current Instana can only display the SQL statement without the parameters val...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Self-managed Instana backend support Tencent cloud managed Kafka service as the datastore.

A large number of customers run their workloads on the public cloud platform. At the same time, many of our customers in GCG region will use the resources provided by Tencent Cloud to build their management platforms, such as self-managed Instana ...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

add metrics support for undertow

undertow is an open source project behind Jboss. it's one of the most popular embeded web server in Spring Boot applications. customer has obersevability for this technology. customer is interested in metrics regarding http requests and thread poo...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add a new field with OS distibution info (i.e. Ubuntu 20.04) that will be displayed in host details from Instana dashboard.

Host details from Instana dashboard is showing only kernel release field (i.e. linux 5.15.0-1038-gcp). It should be useful to add the OS distribution field (i.e. Ubuntu 20.04) as well. The field should be available for Linux. This information will...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support an alternate/multiple authentication methods

Our team/project, ISV is the underlying function behind w3id and ibmid. We would like to use ISV based SSO for authenticating to our tenants. In a scenario we have production issue with the ISV tenant that is used for the Instana SSO, we may not b...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Future consideration

Instana vulnerability reporting: Need a standard way of versioning the each technology monitored by Instana

I built a custom toolkit that provides a catalog of vulnerabilities found for the technologies monitored by Instana sensors. The source code is placed on GHE [here](https://github.ibm.com/AIOps-Elite-Team/instana-vulnerability-reporter). However, ...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

FP DEDB and MSDB support by Instana on z

According to the manual (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iooz?topic=components-z-apm-connect-ims-data-producer), FP DEDB and MSDB databases in IMS MQ Bridge transactions are not supported by Instana.Our customer is using this function and they want to...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration