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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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New Joined Hosts to new default zone

Dears, How can we set / configure Instana to add new joined hosts to a certain zone instate of "Undefined Zone"? We need all new joined hosts to be member of "New servers" zone for example instate of "Undefined Zone"... and later we can configure ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

I need TADDM Microsoft Exchange Sensor to add support for MS Exchange 2019 version.

Taddm has only "Microsoft Exhange Sensor 2003" and "Microsoft Exchange Sensor" and the two are not compatible with Exchange server 2019. I want you to help me finding solution for this issue. Thanks,
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Needs to monitor swap/paging metrics for AIX hosts

We need to monitor and alert on swap/paging metrics for AIX and Windows hosts. After having configured events for these metrics, they triggered incorrectly for AIX and Windows and instana support confirmed with engineering that they only provide t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Properties that display when the number of users will exceed the recommended maximum number of concurrent users in webgui

. Is there any restriction of user log in if it exceeds concurrent user access count?
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.

TS014338255: NodeJS App: Stacktrace: Queries are getting trimmed at random. Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

TLS connections to scrape Prometheus endpoints

Allow TLS connections for connections from Instana agents/sensors instances to scrape target prometheus endpoints
about 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Future consideration

Custom dashboard for application perspective grouping custom prometheus metrics

Up to v257 on-prem it is not possible to create custom dashoard widget panel under an application perspective for (prometheus) custom metrics (only standard metrics like calls, latency or errorneous).We want to to create custom dashboards over cus...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration

Scraping of Prometheus endpoint metrics from C-Components

Affects Instana sensor and UI-backendAs a customer having to monitor custom metrics in a complex platform with heterogenous stack we need to monitor prometheus endpoint custom metrics provided be C-components, too.Please consider scraping Promethe...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Application monitoring plugin for Informatica powercenter

We were looking to monitoring the informatica ETL application at the client using instana. Unfortunately, couldn't find any plugin related to Informatica Powercenter 10.2.0 Hotfix 2 or 10.4.1 in the configuration.yaml neither at https://www.ibm.co...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

control rerun frequency interpretation

Currently when a rerun frequency is defined on a job in a job stream that frequency is interpreted differently depending on whether there is a job level earliest start time on the job. Without the earliest start time the rerun frequency is interpr...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration