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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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Missing self monitoring from documentation for every release

As we are self hosting our instana backend we need to know what metrics etc we need to look for to make sure the instana backend is running correctly. As of now we have to guess what metric we have to check.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Instana to monitor IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance to do end-to-end observability solution for IBM API solution.

My Clients in Thailand have applications expose service to consumers by API and using IBM solution that inclide [1] IBM DataPower Gateway  Physical appliance [2] APIConnect on CP4I . They plan to use Instana to do end-to-end observability but now...
8 months ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
29 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
30 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

.Net core Windows service should auto discover without adding the Nuget package(Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows).

In order to setup the monitoring for .Net core Windows service we need to install Nuget package (Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows) and rebuild/publish the application which requires a new release and therefore we need a solution which will au...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 5 Not under consideration

Identify Source of the Calls in Instana

If applications are running on a server on which Instana agent is deployed and those applications make calls to destination application which is properly instrumented by Instana, we should be able to see source details in Instana like source IP/ho...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
9 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

Instana Pod Monitoring on Windows Nodes

The current requirement is to enable Instana pod monitoring on a Windows worker node in the absence of a Linux worker node within the cluster. This necessitates the implementation of Windows pod monitoring capability within the existing framework.
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration