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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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Support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x and v3.10.x

We need support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x (customer currently have 3.9.13) and v3.10.x. RabbitMQ v3.9.x is currently much more important but for a futureproof v3.10.x should be supported as well.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 1 Delivered

Instana's Terraform Strategy

As user of Terraform and utilising: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/gessnerfl/instana/latest/docs We want to know how Instana is about to support this natively, and what are the plans/roadmap in regards to Terraform.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Delivered

Make Website Metrics available in SLO Widget

Make Websites metrics available in SLO Widgets. Stats like "First Contentful Paint", "Page Views", "Time to First Byte", and "OnLoad Time". Currently only Application perspectives are supported.
over 2 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

DWC : isLate flag for job streams

isLate flag exists for querying late jobs in the plan but does not exist for job streams.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

I would like to monitor the health of etcd in a Kubernetes/OCP cluster

As the beating heart of my cluster, I would like to be able to monitor the health metrics of the cluster's etcd database.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

AIX - Allow ability to override 'top processes' that appear on prebuilt OS views

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, it doesn't show any 'top processes' based on CPU or memory consumed perspective. Per Ben Stern of IBM, that is due to the current default which will only show 'top processes' that meet this criteria...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Delivered

Ratio Based Alerts for HTTP Status Codes

Hi Team, I want to place a request to have alerts based on Ratio rather than just having based on having alerts on daily and weekly seasonality. This is required as we are growing. We might see some common errors increasing in the system and avoid...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered

Nokia Altiplano Access Manager integration with ITNM

Globe has chosen Nokia Altiplano Access Controller as the domain controller to provide unified access management and integrated network automation across a multi-vendor, multi-technology environment. As updated in the support case (TS004530971), I...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 5 Delivered

Support for Instana Backend on OpenShift

Openshift support is on our roadmap and definitely something we want to support at Instana. Beta is planned for Q2 and GA for Q3.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 7 Delivered

Permission to Enable/disable Heap Dumps create Option (JVM Backchannel Options) from Instana UI

Dear IBM Instana Development Team, I am sharing some insights and suggestions from our Instana software experiences. While we greatly appreciate the software's capabilities, we have identified a potential area for improvement concerning the Heap D...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered