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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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For the MQ Channel Status metric in Instana dashboard widget, there is no filter option for channel status

To check the MQ Channel Status for the channels with erroneous status codes
6 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Automatic infrastructure correlation update when HA service ip changed

Basically, infrastructure correlation works good. However, we have faced a case that the correlation is unlinked. We suspect that the phenomenon occurred when a take-over of HA (high availability) happened. In our case, we use Db2 HADR and TSA (Ti...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Analytics Calls value link

Hi Would be nice if you could take values from the calls details page and make it an variable in a link to another site. The use case is customer is using OTEL and we get "db.sqlid" value klsdjf9034r. The customer is requesting if we could have a ...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under 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

Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
9 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

With Infra Smart Alerts provide a way to prevent auto closure

Problem/use-case: We have a subset of alerts that are triggered based on problems that happen in an instant (1-shot) where the events are in good right away. Such Issues are for example triggered by a metric which only shows a short spike. Consequ...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Enhancement in MQ Events

As part of testing MQ Events, we tried to create an event integrated with PagerDuty. Once the event is triggered below JSON data event gets published to Pager Duty as an event API. { "client": "Instana", "client_url": https://prod-loblaw.instana-t...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Functionality already exists

Top Hosts By System Uptime

Today, we have the host uptime information when looking at the 'Started At' data when drilling into an individual host. We would like to see the top hosts based on uptime duration on a custom consolidated dashboard so we can see which one(s) have ...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Display IP Address on Comparison Table

On comparison table, user can gather the overview condition of host utility, with hostname as its identifier. However, to validate and further troubleshoot the host condition, user will logon to the server by using IP address. Therefore knowing th...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Kafka topic lag data is unusable in its current state

The way that kafka topic lag data is represented within Instana makes it virtually unusable. The reason is that each topic is listed independently. There is no way to apply general rules to the data. For example, if I try to create an Event agains...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review