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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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Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
29 days ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Under review

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...
5 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Submitted

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
7 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
7 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Monitor disk IOPs on VMs

To get events on issues with disk IOPs on VMs
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
11 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Submitted

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Trace through Azure API Management and Azure Service Bus

Clients use Integrations running in Azure are expecting full tracing end to end through Azure API Management - Appservice - Azure SQL - Azure Service Bus - Azure Functions. Today Instana can only trace through App Services and Functions so we can ...
3 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Provide support to run the agent as non-root

With Separation of Duties (SOD), there are a number of application servers that are within a permission sandbox, ie WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Java JVM, which the running profile (user/group) has read, write and execute within it's direc...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review