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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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Request to upgrade agent code and corresponding sensors to detect all hazelcast applications in the packaged folder.

When two or more Springboot with hazelcast applications are packaged and run into a single tomcat server’s webapps folder, only one of them is detected. Upgrade agent code and corresponding sensors to detect all hazelcast applications in the above...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Support for Db2 Connect

Transaction flow where we are accessing Db2 for z/OS data with Db2 Connect support is needed.
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

We want to control how often we access AzureStorage

We are experiencing problems with AzureStorage monitoring using Instana. The problem is that excessive access to AzureStorage causes "TooManyAccess" errors. According to Azure support, this error is over access from a subscription perspective and ...
3 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Add support for monitoring performance query of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Background: My customer has been using Instana to monitor a native mobile application on AWS. One of their requirements is to detect performance bottlenecks of the application. Generally, I understand a database tends to become the bottleneck. Iss...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

AIX power swap and database tablespace name request

TradeVan is moving from ITM to Instana and facing lack of capabilties in Instana as compared to what they already have in ITM. Adding IBM CSM email as customer email is not available. From Tzung-Wen Liau: "Did you know how to get AIX swap informat...
3 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Add kubernetes pod emphemeral storage usage as metric

Hi all, When monitoring critical k8s deployments which have an ephemeral storage limit defined, it is essential to actively keep track on the current usage and get an alert once the limit is nearly reached. It might be possible to get these metric...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Selective discovery of Prometheus sensor in Kubernetes Clusters

When deploying the Prometheus sensor to Kubernetes it tries to discover prometheus metrics endpoints from every service. This can lead to increased load and logs created by services that do not provide fitting metrics endpoints. When deploying the...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Under review

ServiceAccount GCP Helm

Hello, We would like to use Serviceaccount annotation for GCP in Helm Instana Here is a merge request. https://github.com/instana/helm-charts/pull/16 Best Regards
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Compare Cyber 5 data year over year.

Dicks Sporting Goods has an ask to be able to view our Cyber 5 data year over year for comparison. For everything in our org. Applications, Websites, Mobile apps. Due to high traffic over Cyber 5, there is a desire to get comparable stats from yea...
5 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Match AWS Lambda invocation timestamps in Instanta Infrastructure dashboard to timestamp reported in Lambda instrumented traces or Cloudwatch.

For AWS Lambda there is a delay of >= 10 minutes for metrics like Lambda Invocation. This is because CloudWatch makes data available with some delay. However, this is causing confusion with customers as the Lambda invocation times reported in t...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Under review