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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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Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Dashboards: Add variables (dropdown menu) to custom dashboards

Hello, Can you please add variables (dropdown menus) in custom dashboard so that we can have one custom dashboard on which we would be able to show same data but for different application/host/process/jvm.... Those dropdown menus should also suppo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Logging API and Grafana as log aggregator

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Grafana Loki as a log aggregator solution, their business is linked to it, their SREs use capabilities of searching filtering logging of that component. At the moment they consider using Instana as an applica...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Needs more information

Support for Red Hat AMQ Broker

We are using Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing on Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 We know that Artemis...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Dynamically Include % 5XX or 4XX Count in Smart Alerts

Hi Team, I need to include below information dynamically in smart Alarming . Impacted country code which want to publish on mail. % of failure and failure count for impacted API name So request you to please include all the above information shoul...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Add event triggered value in custom event subject and email.

we need to added as exist in build in event when it triggered it show the value in end of the subject like (12.31%) While it not shown in subject in custom events ... i need to include this reached value in subject because not exist also in Applic...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Hi IBM , need to enhance in Instana that able to export the analytics applications call into csv .

it is useful for sort the data using excel , not copy paste one by one.
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Under review

It's better to have the percent memory utilized for a process (e.g., Integration Server process in IBM ACE)

We want to capture the percentage memory utilized for any integration server process. This will help in identifying the max. memory used process so that support team can take appropriate action on that process.
6 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Export Config Data to CSV/XML Format As Well

Today, Instana API calls like ../api/events/settings/event-specifications/custom return data in JSON format only. Going forward potential enhancement options: 1) The U/I provides a way to export this sort of config data and allows it to be ex...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Ability to monitor IBM Cloud MySQL DBaaS

We're currently missing the ability to monitor MySQL DBaaS hosted by IBM Cloud in depth. Maybe it's possible to task an agent to connect to a remote MySQL database using a agent running somewhere else. We'd like to get some performance stats, open...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration