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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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Navigate with context to Events window.

from AP dashboards allow navigation directly to events with event.application/service/endpoint.name populated.
over 3 years ago in Instana 4 Not under consideration

More verbose/readable audit logs in Instana UI

I would like more verbosity in the Audit Log with more detail of what exactly changed so that I can more accurately evaluate (or undo) changes made by users.
 IIRC this was mainly around 1) the use of IDs rather than display names and 2) vagu...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Support for multiple proxy servers in the agent configuration

The ability to configure and use multiple proxy servers, which can enhance network flexibility, redundancy, and HA.
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Instana more flexible and agile with flexible the installation ports

Customers from Banking using McAfee antivirus which can block Instana-Backend and Instana-Backend cannot installed. The issues are McAfee using port 8081 which is same with Instana-Backend using port 8081 too.So, the ideas are Can the Instana-Back...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration

ACE & Datapower to Database transaction tracing

Currently ACE/Datapower to Database(Oracle 12c/19c) transaction tracing is not available. It is required to track the transaction end-to-end. In Vi there are many integrations where ACE/Datapower is calling Database either via stored procedure cal...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Memory Limits Allocation

Issue: Case numberTS014283635 We are receiving alerts from eks_commhub_prod_east_2 cluster stating that the below mentioned nodes are breaching the Memory Limits Allocation. ip-10-45-30-219.us-east-2.compute.internalip-10-45-31-81.us-east-2.comput...
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Add Agent Zone and tagging option for ALL agent installations from the backend user interface (UI).

Most agent installation types do NOT allow adding a custom zone or custom tagging when installing the agent from the UI. Azure appears to be the only one that does. The zone and tags are simple configurations that have to be manually added to the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Need the ability to monitor Db2 instances with DATA_ENCRYPT authentication security mechanism

Per the documentation, the DB2 sensor does not support DB2 instances that use DATA_ENCRYPT authentication security mechanisms. The customer that I'm working with is getting ready to switch their database over to use DATA_ENCRYPT authentication. In...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Improving Event Mechanism

1) When an event occurs, customer wants to see the detailed information about how the event occurred among the details. For example, an event related to disk capacity occurs above 50%, but they don't know if it occurred at 70% or 80%. 2) Customer ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Custom Alerts - Missing fields when sent to Alert Channels

Custom Alerts in Instana are missing important fields like below and whereas out of the box alerts are having these values. Even Custom alerts should have below values, when sent to alert channels. 1) IBM Instana IBM MQ Queue - Current Queue depth...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 1 Not under consideration