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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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Event Creation based VIOS/LPAR State (pHMC Plugin) on Instana

The customer has enabled the pHMC plugin for Instana and started to get the "State" of their Logical Partitions and VIOs' states. However they are not able to create event based on this state. However to retire their legacy monitoring systems, the...
6 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Monitoring Virtual Target Device Span (VTD Span) on VIOs with Instana

With Instana IQM bundle, the customer would like to monitor if VTD (Virtual Target Disk) is mapped to Multiple Disks on VIOs. With the PMR TS019458836, IBM informed the customer that with current versions of Instana IQM bundle, it is not possible ...
6 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Adding Details on Instana Grafana Plugin Legend Format

On Instana Grafana plugin's legend format, the customer would like to retrieve the infrastructure details such as FQDN name, deployment name, pod name, container name. As soon as they only able to retrieve the MAC address, it wouldn't help to make...
6 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Enhance Instana Standard Edition to make airgapped package more available

Affected: All airgapped customers, like goverent sector, military and public sector who usually run Instana in Airgapped environment would intereted to use Instana Standard Edition and prefer the airgapped can be easily available more easily Descr...
26 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Support of IBM ACE on Windows

Supporting IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) on Windows for Monitoring Adding support for monitoring IBM ACE on Windows would greatly benefit development and QA teams who primarily use Windows environments during local testing and early-stage deplo...
20 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Add a "PersistentVolumes" column to the Kubernetes Clusters view for quicker visibility and access to PV details and metrics

This enhancement would significantly improve observability and troubleshooting by making PersistentVolumes (PVs) immediately visible at the cluster level. Currently, users have to dig through multiple views to find storage-related information. Sur...
23 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
23 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Create equivalent reporting for Instana based on Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) ITM agents and Z Enterprise agents

ITM and TCR are deprecated so customers who have moved away from ITM to Instana no longer have the reporting functionality
16 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Custom time range to schedule an instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
9 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Need the ability to customize the collection interval for the k8sensor

A number of customers are ingesting more data than the fair use policy allows and are being charged more for their SaaS environment. They want ways to customize the data that is being ingested. One of the largest sources of data in a number of our...
9 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted