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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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Kubernetes CronJob Monitoring and Tracing

Ability to monitor CronJob as a separate service and enable tracing for CronJobs will help in monitoring the downstream calls just like other services. CronJobs can call other services using Rest APIs. It is helpful if we can monitor those Rest AP...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 8

Include a combobox on AP, Service and Endpoint panel to move to another App, Service o Endpoint easily

Why ?: because returning to the list of Apps, Services or Endpoints is annoying Whose benefit ?: All users of Instana. Should work as a simple combobox with the links.
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Avoid filtering hosts by current availability on Infrastructure Map

Dear colleagues, we have different approaches, for different dashboards. I mean if we switch to application perspective dependency diagram, customer can see transactions and number of calls for past 24 hours even if a server that processed the cal...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ability to have a "quick export" of configurations in Instana

It would be useful if we could have an option to "quickly" export configured perspectives/websites/events etc that we have set from Instana, maybe into a YAML/JSON/XML format, and then it can be imported again into an Instana interface. I think th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Request to support monitoring of A10 Hardware Load balancer. (Product Type: ADC, Model: TH1040S version 5.2.1-P6, Build 74)

Request to support monitoring of A10 Hardware Load balancerProduct Type: ADC, Model: TH1040S version 5.2.1-P6, Build 74 Attached the screen short of the load balancer with version details.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Need to suppress Memory Alert usage for Standby pods

Here in openshift as MQ is Native HA, we have three pods configured out of which 1 will be active and other 2 will be standby pods. We have configured Memory usage alert based in namespace filtering. Here in MQ, Standby pods use more memory than a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Web/App End User Monitoring: Custom Metrics: Enable Alerts Based on Actual Metric Values, Instead of Only Count of Custom Metrics

In our Website Monitoring using the INEUM SDK, custom metrics are recorded and correctly displayed on default dashboards. However, when configuring smart alerts, we are restricted to using only the count of custom metric events. We cannot create a...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 2 Planned for future release

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 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Needs more information

Business Monitoring: Display the actual endpoints under Services tab instead of showing the JVM under Top Services

In IBM Business Automation Workflow, we usually create business workflows/processes at the top level. A workflow contains human, system activities and gateways. A human activity usually contains Script blocks to execute code, service flows for sys...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review