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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?
PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Spring Batch Tracing

We are trying to gather traces from Spring Batch applications running as steps in an Argo workflow. The applications may start processing before the Instana agent has discovered and instrumented the JVM. We need a method to effectively trace Sprin...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2 Planned for future release

Custom MessageKey value for XMLGateway and Kafka

nco_g_xml_11 allow using only @ServerSerial or @ServerName as value for ate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property. We need to use at leas the combination of the both fields (for example: @ServerName+to_char(@ServerSerial)) or any other field from Objects...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Request to be able to get a list of all currently active users in WebGUI from CLI

From CLI to be able to generate a list of all the active users currently in WebGUI. A list of all currently active users would be added to a log when run or when scheduled. Allowing the Admins to see and log who was online and when.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

If I have subscriptions with the same name in different Azure Service Principles, I would like a way to add each subscription separately to the Target Configuration.

When configuring multiple Azure Service Principals as Targets, if the Subscriptions they have have the same name, the configuration will be overwritten by a subsequent win. [1] Azure Service Principals "A" has "Subscription 1", and Azure Service P...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions. For example, customers always want to know when there is a DB2 HADR failover. They want to know if there is a failure of the HADR failover. They want to know if neith...
7 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Memory profiles are absent from .NetCore applications

We have only cpu profiles and there is no memory profiles available for dotNetCore applications. Can you please add them to have full profiling of dotNetCore applications.
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Instana Mode set as IQM not be defaulted back to APM on machine reboot

We were doing our monthly patching on mongo machines where the Instana mode was showing as IQM in GUI of Instana and on the machine console as well.[ec2-user@mng3~]$ sudo cat /opt/instana/agent/etc/instana/com.instana.agent.main.config.Agent.cfg# ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Is a defect

Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Planned for future release