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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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Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

Event on Redis cluster integrity

We would like to monitor our Redis clusters' integrity. We run multiple clusters with multiple shards. Each shard should have at least one replica. Example output from `redis cluster nodes` with three shards each with a replica:# redis cluster nod...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Allow visibility on timed out Redis requests on the client side

In our redis client implementation instana does not trace high latency calls that raise a timeout exception. For better understanding redis behaviour these slow calls should be traced as well.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Instana needs to create a sensor agent to observe Spectrum Scale on Linux on Z

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and is investing heavily in a hybrid cloud platform inclusive of Instana. We want to make use of this footprint and Instana observability capabilities across our hybrid cloud, withou...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration

IBM Tivoli Management Services need to support Linux on Z monitoring agent for IBM Netcool/Impact

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and we want to make use of this footprint to run ITM monitoring agent for Netcool/ Impact without having to acquire additional hardware
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Functionality already exists

IBM Tivoli Management Services need to support Linux on Z monitoring agent for IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and we want to make use of this footprint to run ITM monitoring agent for TADDM without having to acquire additional hardware
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

IBM Tivoli Management Services need to support Linux on Z monitoring agent for Tivoli Netcool/Omnibus

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and we want to make use of this footprint to run ITM monitoring agent for Omnibus without having to acquire additional hardware
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Functionality already exists

Subject line of email alerts

We use several onprem backends. All alerts sent by Instana have an email-subject with prefix “[Instana]”. How can we modify that and/or add a label reflecting the backend-name, e.g. “[Instana-Prod1]” or “[Instana][Prod2]”?
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration