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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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Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Display all affected MQ MFT Transfers and their TransferID metric values in an event or alert details.

Currently the list of all affected transfers and their IDs are present when viewing the IBM MQ MFT Agent dashboard during an incident/issue window, but they are NOT shown in the incident/issue Event or an Alert that triggered because of the Event....
4 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Discovery of IIS Workers and WebSphere Instances which does not have any calls for a specific time bound

Detail: Since the inventory we monitor with Instana is very large, we do not know which IIS Worker and / or WebSphere instances are being called or not. We want the IIS Worker and WebSphere instances that does not have any calls are discovered by ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Mute or Silent specific service alert to exclude specific Node/Cluster from the filter

Mute/Silent alerts for Particular node or cluster which is making lot of noise. Please refer case ID TS016989752 for the same.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

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...
6 months ago in Instana / PHP 2

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Extend time window to more than 120 min

Hello, Currently, when creating an event with built-in host metrics, the time window is limited to 120 min We received the following request, which is not currently possible with this limitation : - trigger an alert when a filesystem is > 70% f...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

Enrich transactions in Instana with Network Flow metadata from NPM

Customers are looking for Instana to be their Single pane of glass for observability. A common question is how about the network, what if the problem is there? Our partner Rebendo and customer TINE has a suggestion that customers who use an NPM li...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

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