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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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Custom Dashboard Traffic light widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure 11

Add possibility to group alerts by geographic location

We have many smart alerts per country both in the application and website perspective, it would be nice to be able to set a geographic location (editable or not). In our case it would be very useful to have a distribution by continents so as not t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Allow the Instana agent to monitor CP4BA

Creating this idea but we also have created a case b/c we do not know if this is a defect or enhancement req. Problem Description:Currently, Instana cannot monitor CP4BA. CP4BA has made their container image filesystems readonly and the Instana ag...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Display IP Address on Comparison Table

On comparison table, user can gather the overview condition of host utility, with hostname as its identifier. However, to validate and further troubleshoot the host condition, user will logon to the server by using IP address. Therefore knowing th...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

We need the Event for ACE Integration Node offline and should be able to generate separate Alerts for PROD and NON-PROD.

We tried with SystemRule "Offline Event Detection" and Dynamic Focus Query "entity.selfType: IntegrationNode". This is generating Event/Alert when any of the Integration Nodes is down. But we are looking for separate Event/Alert for PROD and NON-P...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

WebSphere: Show Active threads metric in graph in WebSphere technology dashboard

Hello, Currently, WebSphere default dashboard (host -> process -> JVM -> Webshpere) does not show graph with Active threads metric (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-websphere-applicat...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Disabling instrumentation for a specific pod and jdbc connection

Hi, We request you the possibility to disable tracing for an specific pod or for any specific jdbc connection. Right now the only wat to disable tracing for a pod is by doing ignore processes. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Need databases names as services

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors self written application which connects to local database. We had permission issue which caused to create separate service instance for every database from received calls and customer liked the presentation. ...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration