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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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Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Kong monitoring with all the metrics!!

As on today, Kong is available for monitoring through instana, but with limited metrics on which we can put alerting. Below metrics are not available for alert metric to be setup as event. Since it is not completely available, we are not able to p...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

More than one subscription in a one Cloud Service Agents

In the documentation there is a issue to use one single agent for each Azure subscription as we are able to create a Reading Service Accounts for the whole Azure Tenant and have many subscrioptions; will it possible to configure an agent in order ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
6 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Let integration with elasticsearch include filters of entire application perspective

Dear colleagues, at the moment button appears only on host, port, container dashboard: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=logging-elk#accessing-elk-from-the-instana-ui and leads to the correspondent item only. Please c...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Call topology diagrams between applications

Dear colleagues, Customer asks for applications dependency diagrams that would have additional options to show connections to other defined applications perspectives (excluding "All Services"). Currently there is only option to show the connection...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted