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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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Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Instana console showing servers in offline state

There happend a case where a few servers had instana agent stopped running and they stopped showing up on the console infrastructure monitoring. There should be a way in the instana console where we can see the server being shown in the map or in ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

WebMethods

We need more support for WebMethods from Instana. WebMethods API Gateway 10.11 ( top priority ) WebMethods Developer Portal 10.11 WebMethods BigMemory Max 4.3 (Terracotta) WebMethods Centra Site 10.11
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support for Logging for IBM ACE

To compete with Nodinite that currently offers logging for IBM ACE. https://docs.nodinite.com/Documentation/LoggingAndMonitoring/IBM%20Integration%20Bus Could also be if we can use OpenTelemetry to gather logs from IBM ACE that may be an option?
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Addition of K8's events in custom payload to add in alerts

It would be really good to have k8s events under custom payloads to be added in alerts to let the spoc know where the issue lies ,or what happened at the last with the component,
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Needs more information

Monitoring of AWS MSK in Topics Level Metrics

Instana can currently monitor AWS MSK in the cluster and broker level of metrics only. To improve the AWS MSK monitoring quality, additional metrics in topics level with the following functions will definitely useful and helpful for the MSK opera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release