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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 httpd tracing library for Apache web server on z/Linux (s390x)

This support is critical for clients on z/Linux who have IBM IHS, which is based on httpd
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Planned for future release

Reference-able filter of infrastructure entities

User story As an Instana user,who is in the process of specifying a filter on a set of infrastructure entities,in order to view these entities, to detect issues on them, or to configure maintenance windows on them, I want to have a way to persist ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Need to include GRANT statements in the documentation

Customers struggle in setting up the applications so that they can be monitored by Instana. In our DB2 sensor documentation, we include the privileges that are required in order to monitor the database, but we don't include the commands necessary ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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

Capability to forecast on metrics

Provide ability to forecast the outcome of any metric, including custom metrics, based on any context forecasts context (tag/label/etc.) and scale dynamically with infrastructure and applications. Similar capability to what competitors have: Datad...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

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

Add capability to raise events for current resource usage by pod

Our customer monitors applications running in Kubernetes environment. The application may consume more resources than requests. When it reaches the limit OCP is restarting the pod, that causes service delay. They want to monitor when the resource ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Functionality already exists

Need ability to select single event with multiple threshold on same metric for different disk mount

Currently in Instana you cannot create more than one threshold on same metric. We get this message "No more than one threshold can be defined on the same metric." Use case: Customer wants to create a single event when disk mount usage exceeds 90% ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Not under consideration

Make Instana Agent removal completely clean. Currently, there is no uninstaller when performing Static install, so differences remain in the registry.

When instana agent is installed statically on windows, updates and writes are made to the windows registry when start.bat is used, which cannot be removed.This is because there is no uninstaller for static installations. Enterprise-grade customers...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

Would like to see the Queue represented in the Dependency topology for an application

In the customer's environment, our dependency map only shows the interactions between the Queue Managers. But, the interaction actually happens between the Queues. Since there are hundreds of queues on a queue manager, the customer wants to see th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

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