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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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Azure Storage Accounts Metrics Missing

When monitoring Azure File Shares with Azure storage accounts and their metrics in Instana, there are missing metrics for monitoring Used Capacity. It's available in Azure metrics and most usefull of them all. But in Instana that is not available ...
15 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Support tracing of RMI calls in the same JVM.

Our information system rely a lot of on RMI calls between components ( EJB). To optmize those calls we have deployed multiple components in the same JVM. When a component A calls component B in the same JVM, INSTANA does not trace the call to B co...
6 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Custom dashboard - last value

Through Prometheus, we are gathering in Instana a gauge metric that shows if an instance is active (1) or inactive (0). We'd like to show this value in a custom dashboard using a 'Big number widget' or a 'Top list widget'. It would be great if we ...
6 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 3 Submitted

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
about 1 month ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Real time cpu, ASP and disk utilization should be captured in event description.

Real time cpu, ASP and disk utilization should be captured in event description. For example threshold is configured for generate the event if utilization is more than 80% then what was exact utilization that time (like 81%, 83% or 87% etc)
7 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Support tracing of ICAP-calls (protocol technology support)

Hello,we have service application using ICAP protocol to send and receive data to be virus scanned.It would be awesome to see this calls in Instana
7 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Mike Hofmann

The instana kafka sensor is monitoring kafka with zookeeper config only. ZK is deprecated in future releases of kafka and will be replaced by kRaft. We have need to monitor a kafka/KRaft setup. This AHA request is a follow-up of case opened for th...
7 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
26 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted