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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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Nobl9 has difficulties when integrating Instana's Application APIs.

1) On the Analytics page, the API query button does not generate a complete JSON blob that can be used to query Instana to get the same result as shown on the UI. - No group by option in the generated JSON.- No Hidden Calls filtering in the JSON. ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

WIDGET SLO in LIVE mode does not refresh with values ​​defined in SLI

To be possible to check the live mode in SLO widget in a custom dashboard in Instana. Currently it is unavailable.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Future consideration

Support Prometheus Metrics on Openshift through Openshift Annotations

The option to use OC annotations to collect Prometheus Metrics is not supported by Instana (yet)?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support outbound transaction starting from mainframe to distribute system

A transaction starts from CICS and calls outbound services, such as sending an outbound MQ, or calling another Web Services which resides in a distributed system such as Windows .Net Server(IIS).
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Display summarized mainframe CPU consumption of all JDBC calls to Db2 on z/OS of a single frent-end request, and Instana dashboard can sort by this summarized CPU time.

Mainframe CPU consumption is critical data for application monitoring, currently Instana on z/OS can collect CPU time from SMF data for each JDBC call to Db2 on z/OS and all these data have been sent to Instana. It will be very valuable and helpfu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Improve EUM Page Load View - Add Script Type Labelling for Calls pre Page Load Completion

All calls that are processed before the page load has been completed are being labelled "OTHER" instead of their actual type. Can they be retroactively analysed and labelled correctly instead? Please see added screenshots for reference.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Missing mount point monitoring

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors mount success with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs of what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCAN KLZ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to monitor Durable queues

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors Durable queues with Tivoli Monitoring in a way we can't replicate in Instana. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below are the dif...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need Instance parameter representation in thresholds and percentiles

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several parameters that we need to monitor Queue Channels: Instance numbers Instance percentile Channels percentile Our customer monitors them with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Dashboards not embeddable in an iframe due to CORS Restrictions

Dear Instana support team, while migrating from New Relic to Instana, some of the SBB Teams are trying to integrate their current Dashboards with the Instana Dashboards.One of the problems which occurred today is that we are not able to integrate ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration