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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?
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Change/Enhance client behaviour for Instana EUM to prevent network peaks

With current eum config. potential network issues/overload are possible (see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-mobile-app-monitoring-faq#what-happens-for-users-with-bad-internet-or-network-connections )Pl...
6 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Filesystem specific statistics

Only these file system statistics metrics are available on the Host level Dashboard: capacity, used, leaked, inode usage. But we need additional statistics too. For examples: Read Calls Percent: Of the total number of calls made to the NFS serve...
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

MFT file transfers should report successful or failed

When a MFT file transfer has completed, the Instana dashboards does not report whether it was successful or failed; it is only reported 'Completed' by the coordination queue manager and the file transfer dashboards. However, when an event fires fo...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Add 'Job Name' to MFT metrics

File transfers are tracked using their 'Transfer ID' in Instana, but this transfer ID is a random string. Our customer creates file transfers with a specific job name, and he needs the transfers to be identified in Instana using their job name. So...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Could not find any Instana API to enable or disable all built-in/Custom events at once

Hi we are trying to disable all buit-in events at once and then enable few which we need for our infrastructure. Instead of walking through all existing events we found this would be more helpful to have an API to disbale/enable all events at once.
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add field "IP Address" in comparison table

If there is a field displaying the IP address, it will be more convenient to identify the host. It's best to provide users with a way to customize the table using the provided field selection.
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Alerts for required time only.

We have some application running in Day time and 5 days a week and don't want to monitor alerts after hour. If we can add time frame while creating alert that will give the user to ability to set alerts for specific time.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Host sensor needs to be able to monitor NIC status

Customers need to understand the status of their NICs to ensure that their networking is functioning properly. Currently, the Instana Host Agent only collects the performance metrics of the NICs and not the satus.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release