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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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In the application traces(Analytics->calls in the UI) the query execution time from a DB2 is not getting represented correctly, for example when a query is waiting for a lock this time is not getting reported under query time instead it is getting reported under JVM time.

it was observed that the entire time(execution+lock) was distributed between the query execution and result fetch, so we need an implementation where we can see the query time and a child span for resultset showing the time taken in locking if any...
23 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Introduce SFTP as an official source for downloading offline agent assemblies in Instana.

BWI has strict security and integrity regulations for corporate networking. Their secure download service only supports the SFTP protocol, and adding new protocols requires a lengthy approval process. To simplify their operations and adhere to the...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Instana's capability to ingest storage speed metrics from IBM i's host

Summary: Why is it useful? This will help clients to quickly detect and identify when something is wrong with their IBM i system especially when it has something to do with storage (read and write speed, causing slowness) Who would benefit from it...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Instana Reporting Capability

We have notice that Instana does not have reporting capabilities like Grafana reporting or Tivoli Common Reporting. We are requesting to add following reporting capabilities: Automated Scheduling: Schedule regular reports, including daily, weekly,...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
about 1 year ago in Instana / Python 5 Planned for future release

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
8 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration