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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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Multi factor Authentication

"Background:Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enhances the security of an application by providing an added layer(s) of authentication mechanism. The authentication mechanism can be any of the following types: what the user knows (security questio...
29 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Kafka topic lag data is unusable in its current state

The way that kafka topic lag data is represented within Instana makes it virtually unusable. The reason is that each topic is listed independently. There is no way to apply general rules to the data. For example, if I try to create an Event agains...
29 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Concurrent Sessions Enabled

Background: Concurrent session enabled refers to a feature or setting within an application or system that allows a user to be logged in and active from multiple devices or locations simultaneously. In other words, a user can have multiple concurr...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Adding metrics in Instana to monitor Transform Object for elastic search

Transform Object is one of the key components in elastic search. Currently Instana does not have any capability to monitor transform object.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Kong Monitoring - Have a unified console page just like Kubernetes

For Kong monitoring, we currently have agents being monitored and this poses a great deal of work to figure out which agent among 100's of agents some clusters may have to know the metrics. Instead, Kong monitoring should be based on cluster level...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Custom event for disk status

Customer is looking to replace existing tool with Instana for IBM i monitoring. They are currently using an event trigger when disk is not found which is not currently possible with Instana. This request is to support custom event wherein customer...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Document instana agent log error message meaning, criticallity and potential resolution

Agent logs in our production and preproduction env are collected centrally in our logging plattform, but currently we cannot interpret message meaning and criticallity as needed for enterprise operation of our vending platform.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Terraform support for Infrastructure Smart Alerts is needed

There is currently no terraform code available to creating Infrastructure Smart Alerts. This capability is missing but needed for a customer engagement.
2 months ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

JBoss 7.4.6 and WildFly Full 23.0.2.Final (WildFly Core 15.0.1.Final) support

Currently the following Java stack is not supported: WildFly Full 23.0.2.Final (WildFly Core 15.0.1.Final) JBoss EAP 7.4.6.GA As a result some endpoints are represented in not human-friendly hexadecimal form (e.g. e49219dd-8f34-4470-bc32-da462e4d6...
2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Request for New Feature in IBM Instana - Monitoring and Alerting of IBMi Job Status

I would like to propose a new feature for IBM Instana that would significantly enhance its monitoring capabilities for IBMi systems. Currently, there is no direct mechanism to monitor and alert based on the status of jobs running on IBMi environme...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted