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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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AI for future migration/lift/shift.

I am an IBM customer involved in a years long effort to lift and shift out of now unsupported IIB to ACE. Lots of manual stare/compare. Need to apply AI tactically to be able to do first cut of that in next thing past ACE so I dont have to do this...
5 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Allow Token or userid password from IBM MQ to Instana agent

IBM MQ introduced telemtry as per doc : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.4?topic=operator-integrating-mq-instana-tracing It doe snot provide secure conection and authentication option when configuring on-prem or non ibm otel providers. Also, t...
5 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Improve the usability of the search textbox

improve the usability of the search text box.1. its position is confusing (where is search box!?)2. the filter selection select box is mistaken for the search text box.3. I have to press the magnifying glass icon to search (I want to input search ...
7 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
2 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
12 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

In the application traces(Analytics->calls in the UI) the query execution time from a DB2 is not getting represented correctly, for example when a query is waiting for a lock this time is not getting reported under query time instead it is getting reported under JVM time.

it was observed that the entire time(execution+lock) was distributed between the query execution and result fetch, so we need an implementation where we can see the query time and a child span for resultset showing the time taken in locking if any...
7 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted