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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?

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Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Instana Dashboard Dark Mode

Our client has requested the addition of a dark mode feature to the Instana dashboard to improve usability and align with their needs. This feature would enhance accessibility for users with light sensitivity. It also reflects industry standards, ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Add support for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

Support for extracting metrics, logs, and traces from an Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
3 months ago in Instana / WAS 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...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
23 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
2 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

GlassFish Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application when it is not enabled.
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Enabling capturing synthetic calls

We noticed (with the support of a support ticket) that the option in "Configure Synthetic Endpoints" > "Auto-Detected Health/Ping Checks" needs to be enabled in order that calls from synthetic monitors are marked as synthetic. It would be usefu...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted