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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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All tables should be able to be sorted, filtered, shared and exportable to csv

Since there is not a way to inject custom fields/values such as a note that a specific agent, event, smart alert is a work in progress, or associated to a specific project task or incident response, we have to be able to create order listing of th...
27 days ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

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

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.
28 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...
28 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

.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

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration