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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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1 VOTE

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything For example, Job Queue Library is "QGPL" and count is >= 200

5 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.

5 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Add an option to change the severity of a built-in events

We need an option to change the severity of a built-in event as per the requirement from the customer. As of now it's fixed, therefore Priority events are getting missed because those are set as warning. For example, message queue, Top active jobs...

5 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...

5 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...

5 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Monitor for port status 'Listening'/'Non-Listening'

We want to monitor for ports on IBMi. Currently the port monitoring is not available to check if a port is listening or not. Currently it only monitors for 'Connection Established status' on the monitored port. But if port is not listening at all ...

5 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.

5 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

10 VOTE

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...

5 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

11 VOTE

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...

5 days ago in Instana / MQ 1 Submitted

1 VOTE

Allow fields customisation on Events dashboard for sorting

Dear colleagues, our customer is actively using Events dashboard and would like to be able to sort events by severity of the events in a list. Please consider implementing the feature of customising fields and sorting by them. Thank you

5 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

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