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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 tracing support for Borland Delphi

Ability to trace Borland Delphi client calls to SQL Server, perhaps an intermediate component that discovers transactions without the need to modify the application.
about 14 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

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.
about 23 hours ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
14 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review

Macros in names of custom events.

Extension to allow defining macros in custom event names based on "Triggering entity" data. e.g., Queue {{entity.ibmmq.queue.name}} on queue manager {{entity.ibmmq.qm.name}} is almost full. Right now, I have to define multiple custom events that d...
5 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Submitted

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
14 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
4 days ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
4 days ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

Kafka Sensor: Support Kafka Kraft Deployments

In Kafka Zookeeper deployments are deprecated since Confluent kafka 7.5 https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-metadata/zk-production.html Even though IBM Instana Kafka Agent supports Confluent Kafka 7.7.1 according to Support Sheet http...
6 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
23 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Flexible Subflow Instances: We need additional instances for child subflows under the REST API-generated implementation subflow.

It would be much better if we had additional instances for child subflows under the REST API-generated subflow. This would allow us to associate all operations (request and response subflows) in one place, especially when dealing with asynchronous...
11 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted