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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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Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Go to next/previous windows timerange

Hello, currently in Instana, we can select a predefined timerange (last 30min, last 1h, yesterday, etc.) or we can customize the timerange with year, month, day, hour, minutes. Once we have this selected, there is no option to automaticaly go to n...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Log integrations with Grafana Loki logs system

We would like have option to integrate Grafana Loki logs managment with Instana. We are using IBM Openshift environment that ships application and inftrastructure logs to Loki.
2 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
6 months ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
5 months ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
over 1 year ago in Instana / Python 5 Planned for future release

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

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