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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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Enabling tracing on Azure API Management

Azure API Management is a hybrid multi-cloud platform to manage APIs in all environments, although today we have metrics on the solution already enabled are not enough to identify the transactions that go through the platform, for this reason it i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Mule ESB version 4.x

Currently, Instana can monitoring Monitoring Mule ESB version 3.x, however, version 3.x is already out of support: Ref: Instana -> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mule-esb Ref Mulesoft: -&...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

WebLogic - monitor Web deployments

We are using WebLogic servers. Recently we had an incident in which a web deployment was not loaded correctly. Currently it's not possible in Instana to alert when a web deployment is not loaded. A support ticket was made and they suggested to cre...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Add owner of the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab

Please add the username/name of the person who created the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab, that way we know who created it. Thank you.
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

More than a project or a project list in Openstack Agent configuration

We are using Openstack Instana agent to monitor IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) in the agent configuration we need to specify a single project and consequently to see only the Computer Instances related to this projet. In order to have a co...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

FTP monitoring in ace

In ACE, for many clients, we have numerous flows that receive input from files, especially via FTP. However, we have noticed that Instana is unable to trace these inputs. It would be beneficial to monitor this scenario as well.
6 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Future consideration

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 0 Under review

Ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events

Need ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events. Required format - subject line+ service name.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration