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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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Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

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

Hi IBM , need to enhance in Instana that able to export the analytics applications call into csv .

it is useful for sort the data using excel , not copy paste one by one.
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Under review

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

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

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 Future 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

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

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