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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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OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration

Need instana support for kubernetes traefik

Many customers using kubernetes tracfik as their web server in China mainland. We need instana support for Kubernete tracfik to development business.
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Adding Connection metrics in IBM MQ Channel while creating Instana Events

Connection metric should be included while defining event for IBM MQ Channel. Giving the user privilege to define event to monitor connections made to a channel.
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Under review

Instana agent must bring metrics from multiple database services with different ports on local host.

The current Instana implemented code picks the “port” number from configuration.yaml file and figures out that what is database service name (or SID) and connects and brings-in corresponding metrics. IBM developers may update the code to read mult...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.
3 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
6 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

IMS Connect support with Instana on z

We have transaction flow with IMS transaction exposed thru IMS Connect. This is not supported flow by Instana on z
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Functionality already exists

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration