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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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Flexibility to adjust the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account to avoid sharp changes to the adaptive threshold.

The customer requests more flexibility in the method of determining the adaptive threshold and allow the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account when modifying the threshold. In the cases experiences by the customer, when a tre...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Is a defect

Monitor on message types

Hi, We have some requirements where instead of putting a certain message id to monitor. We monitor all *INQUIRY messages which has not been responded within a certain period of time. If an INQUIRY message is still waiting for a reply for more than...
27 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Need an alert configuration for Instana License expiry

Hi Team, We would like to have an alert configuration to notify us on the license expiration. It will be helpful for us to renew the license on time. We request you to please consider this request into consideration.
27 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

APIs needed for adding Tags and Zones for Instana agents

It will allow to do bulk tags and zones for a group of agents. We can of course use git based and Ansible but APIs are these days the easiest one to go for and if you provide swagger gui for APIs it will be even easier to manage. Since you are giv...
27 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

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

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
6 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

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...
9 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? ...
8 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

save filter button in analytics page

In analytics page you can do filter on applications and all other metrics ad stuff but you cant create saved filter for common search criteria or very complex queries.you should create a save button as in infrastructure page.
28 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release

Application - Smart Alerts - Select Services endpoints - with name reg expression

Within an enterprise environment, there will be hundreds of entities if not thousand. Secondary, entities can be created, deleted in an elastic process. Being able to add a entity.host.name contains "java-13", would allow for dynamic assignment wi...
28 days ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists