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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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Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
9 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
25 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Submitted

Enterprise level support for target management. More information and downloads.

This was a request from a large customer with hundreds of targets. Some of which are labeled critical - even though they might still be working - and might just be delayed - can the reason for the CRTICAL be more easily found. ideally we can downl...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Submitted

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
19 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
19 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Integrate policy scheduling for on prem actions by scheduled maintenance windows

We had purchased a custom integration which was crafted by Ray Mileo and John Fabry which integrates scheduled maintenance windows in our turbonomic solution which creates policies based on configured maintenance windows / patching cycles of our W...

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
15 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Gather Serilog data from serilog sink

Serilog uses sinks for writing log events to storage in various formats. Add option for instana to collect Serilog logs with sink to compete with Dynatrace, datadog and New Relic that do this today. This is a list of competitors that already have ...
9 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view We need urgently a way to build application perspective views based on discrete call tags that arise at various points in service hierarc...
25 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Submitted