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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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Instana should support Graviton based machines and applications deployed on them

Instana should support Graviton based machines and applications deployed on EC2 and EKS. Support is need for applications written using GoLang, Nodejs, .net core, java. We also need support for opentel.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Submitted

Enable collection of service flow metrics on service relation

As a monitoring org for sales distribution platform with complex distributed service architecture we need metrics like eg. latency, calls, error-rate for caller-callee service relation as opposed to existing application service flow map where metr...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Monitoring Forked Processes in PHP

Description: We would like to propose the addition of functionality to monitor forked processes in PHP. Currently, there are monitoring tools available for PHP, but there is a lack of capability to monitor specifically forked processes. This is pa...
5 months ago in Instana / PHP 2

Alert setup on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity

Ability to setup alert on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity as this requirement will help monitoring team to take action before Horizontal pod autoscaling reach its max capacity
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3

Monitor subjobs

To be able to monitor subjobs. For example in the bank end of day process, the main job will have many subjobs. In this case the user of the subjobs can be the same with the user of the main jobs, but the jobName and jobNumber for the subjobs can ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Wildcard to specify activeJobs:jobs & inactiveJobs

In the activeJobs:jobs section and inactiveJobs section, currently we need to specify job number. Customer need option to not specify the job number or to use wildcard, because job number can change all the time and customer cant keep on changing ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Not under consideration

Ability to customize built-in rules

Ability to customize built-in rules
about 2 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Be able to monitor the windows process which doesn't have CommandLine attribute

Instana host sensor provide the ability to monitor the custom process via com.instana.plugin.process in configuration.yaml, however, there is limitation in windows platform. Host Sensor on Windows is comparing the string you specify in the configu...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Needs more information