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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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Support for monitoring IBM Informix

Instana do not have support IBM Informix database monitoring. I suggest to add support.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered

Update Android Client of Instana - So it will work with upcoming Gradle 8.0

Can you pls make the Android client Gradle 8.0 compatible? Error from Gradle (Android Studio build): API 'android.registerTransform' is obsolete. It will be removed in version 8.0 of the Android Gradle plugin. The Transform API is removed to im...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Delivered

CentOS8 support

Currently CentOS8 is not listed as a supported OS for on-prem on Instana official documentation.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Monitoring Tibco BW - metrics

Hi, Based on Request #24197 and Request #24185 Tibco BW (https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-businessworks) is not supported by Instana. We have all our business logic there and right now we do not have any way to monitor or trace it. Business wo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 4 Delivered

FR - Certificate Expiry Sensor

Hi, As an Instana user I would like the ability to have a metric showing the number of days until a certificate expires, including the ability to alert at x or y days until expiry, so that I can proactively prevent issues caused when this happens. BR
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 4 Delivered

Release markers on Custom Dashboards

when working with Custom Dashboards I want to have an indication when changes happen in order to analyze my data around a focal point. For this I would like to have release markers also in the Time Series widget on Custom Dashboards.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered

Implement ElasticSearch Index Rotation

Currently there is no mechanism to clean up ElasticSearch Indices. That means the grow infinitely and searches will slow down. IBM provides scripts to clean up this indices with the delete_by_query api which deletes all documents older than a spec...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Delivered

Define reoccurring maintenance windows

Please offer the possibility to define reoccuring "maintenance windows". Usecase: Prevent getting alerts for process-restarts that are scheduled every night / every Sunday / on each 1. day of a month / …
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

To be able to monitor AlmaLinux

Currently AlmaLinux was not supported by Instana. Currently, the number of customers using AlmaLinux is increasing as it is the successor to centOS. So, it will be greate if Instana could monitor AlmaLinux.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Delivered

MQ Monitoring: Monitor the same Qmgr name on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml

Monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml is not supported for MQ sensor. MQ sensor can monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts, but need to be monitored from different agent host. MQ sensor support RDQ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Delivered