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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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Extending Instana JAVA-Sensor to collect additional metrics from IBM ELM JVM's

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Instana in Jazz for SM

There is a need to integrate Instana portal in same DASH portal as Netcool Omnibus and ITNM. This way administrators would access Instana pages from same portal that contained notification in alarm form that there is an issue with application. Thi...
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Enable website automatic instrumentation for NGINX

Hello, Currently it is possible to automatically instrument website monitoring on the Apache. As our organization is currently in the process of migrating part of the webservers from Apache to Nginx, we would like a possibility to have the same fe...
8 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Built-In Host disk space event description must include the mount point (for Unix and Linux).

Currently event description looks like : Deveice '/dev/mapper/rootVG-v' is full. Clean space on '/dev/mapper/rootVG-v'.... This not descriptive and less usable. It's more preferred to use mount point instead of disk device space.
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

How to monitor MinIO with Instana IBM?

Currently, I want to monitor Minio (Object Storage Tool) with Instana in order to have first-hand status information. At this time I have not found any relevant information regarding Instana and Minio for monitoring.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
4 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

Get list view of Application services by CPU/memory utilization using Custom Dashboard

We need to get top list of cpu or memory utilization by service /application name as it will help identify which particular application is consuming high cpu/memory . This will facilitate team to take quick action.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Future consideration

With Infra Smart Alerts provide a way to prevent auto closure

Problem/use-case: We have a subset of alerts that are triggered based on problems that happen in an instant (1-shot) where the events are in good right away. Such Issues are for example triggered by a metric which only shows a short spike. Consequ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration