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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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We need the Event for ACE Integration Node offline and should be able to generate separate Alerts for PROD and NON-PROD.

We tried with SystemRule "Offline Event Detection" and Dynamic Focus Query "entity.selfType: IntegrationNode". This is generating Event/Alert when any of the Integration Nodes is down. But we are looking for separate Event/Alert for PROD and NON-P...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Logging API and Grafana as log aggregator

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Grafana Loki as a log aggregator solution, their business is linked to it, their SREs use capabilities of searching filtering logging of that component. At the moment they consider using Instana as an applica...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Hi IBM , need to enhance in Instana that able to export the analytics applications call into csv .

it is useful for sort the data using excel , not copy paste one by one.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Submitted

keep infrastructure metric history on activation of beeInstana

Please refere to TS015999019 Missing his torical Data after migration to beeinstana
3 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Submitted

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Add refresh button on Resource manager window

Refreshing the window allows user to see updates
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Submitted

CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics

Hi Team, We are in need of CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics to identify the pod crash which is a mandatory requirement.
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Discovery of IIS Workers and WebSphere Instances which does not have any calls for a specific time bound

Detail: Since the inventory we monitor with Instana is very large, we do not know which IIS Worker and / or WebSphere instances are being called or not. We want the IIS Worker and WebSphere instances that does not have any calls are discovered by ...
2 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Instana should support Graviton based machines and applications deployed on them

Instana should support Graviton based machines and applications deployed on EC2 and EKS. Support is need for applications written using GoLang, Nodejs, .net core, java. We also need support for opentel.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Submitted

Enrich transactions in Instana with Network Flow metadata from NPM

Customers are looking for Instana to be their Single pane of glass for observability. A common question is how about the network, what if the problem is there? Our partner Rebendo and customer TINE has a suggestion that customers who use an NPM li...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted