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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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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...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 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...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Custom Dashboards: Creating calculated values and then plotting them

In custom dashboards today, we can't seem to create a calculated value and then plot it as a single line. For example: 1) Go to dashboards and create a new time series widget. 2) Use data source: Infrastructure & Platforms 3) For metrics, u...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 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 Future consideration

Add support for Azure Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Instana

Add observability capability to Dynamics 365 to extend visibility into workloads running on that Azure service. That would enable an end-to-end traces accessing that service. That capability would be useful for all customers that are using Dynamic...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Integration to load testing tools like Radview WebLOAD

We see some companies use load testing tools that integrate with our competitors such as Dynatrace. An example is WebLOAD from Radview. Can we provide an integration to load testing tools? Its a common problem when we install instana at a POC that...
9 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 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...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Needs more information

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted