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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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Request for New Feature in IBM Instana - Monitoring and Alerting of IBMi Job Status

I would like to propose a new feature for IBM Instana that would significantly enhance its monitoring capabilities for IBMi systems. Currently, there is no direct mechanism to monitor and alert based on the status of jobs running on IBMi environme...
29 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

JBoss 7.4.6 and WildFly Full 23.0.2.Final (WildFly Core 15.0.1.Final) support

Currently the following Java stack is not supported: WildFly Full 23.0.2.Final (WildFly Core 15.0.1.Final) JBoss EAP 7.4.6.GA As a result some endpoints are represented in not human-friendly hexadecimal form (e.g. e49219dd-8f34-4470-bc32-da462e4d6...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

ITM LO agent dedup feature integrated with Instana

We have integrated ITM LO agent to forward the events to Instana agent; however, we found that the deduplication feature that the LO agent has is not integrated with Instana. For example, in ITM, we can dedup based on the Key attributes such as Cu...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Submitted

Response Time For User Actions

We are using Instana to monitor for our web application availability, performances etc. We would like to have a way to get the processing time or response time for each user actions done on the application. For example: When the user login to the ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Instana needs to support AutoTrace for OpenResty pod

Instana declares the support tracing for 3scale's OpenResty container. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-nginx#other-supported-information But its support is limited for the manual instrumentat...
8 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Planned for future release

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

View the usage of K8s PV(PersistentVolume) and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the PV usage exceeds 80%)

I want to monitor the usage of PV in Kubernetes and trigger an event when the usage exceeds a certain amount compared to the total usage. I would like to request the addition of this function.
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Functionality already exists

View and download the SUM/AVG of Pod's CPU/Memory usage based on K8s Namespace

The customer is checking the usage by Kubernetes namespace using "kubectl top pod -n namespace" and said that this function is essential. And they want to download the result of the command as an excel file, etc. They request that the following fu...
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Needs more information

Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review