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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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Flexible Subflow Instances: We need additional instances for child subflows under the REST API-generated implementation subflow.

It would be much better if we had additional instances for child subflows under the REST API-generated subflow. This would allow us to associate all operations (request and response subflows) in one place, especially when dealing with asynchronous...
12 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

GlassFish Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application when it is not enabled.
23 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
18 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
11 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Support for Node.JS Sensor on native IBM i Agent

This is beneficial to expand tracing to applications utilizing Node.JS.
11 days ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Submitted

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
11 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
28 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 3 Submitted

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Under review

Get an email when an alert has been changed

We have a few teams working in instana and it would be helpful if we could get an email if an alert is changed.
5 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Able to query the Instana Events in Grafana

Hi team, There has been a need to have Instana Events in Grafana, the same way as we do right now in the Custom Dashboards, basically, be able to query Critical/Warning and present them in a Grafana widget. Thank you.
21 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration