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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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Native Instana agent collection of Nvidia DCGX telemetry and Nvidia appliances healthcheck

Following the guide on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-monitoring-gpu-public-preview we were able to bring some data into Instana using OpenTelemetry and prometheus format collection and processing of t...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Mobile Layer DNS break requires just like Web layer request DNs Capture

As we have the mobile app and webapp we wanted to traces the DNS for web and mobile breakups for the mobile app and web app,
8 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Distributed tracing up till the last tier

As we have the latency monitoring in instana, But we could not able to see the End to end tracing in the instana. Some exaples like if the Mobile user is requeted and we want to see the compplete behaviour and request time and response time on eac...
8 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Event Creation based VIOS/LPAR State (pHMC Plugin) on Instana

The customer has enabled the pHMC plugin for Instana and started to get the "State" of their Logical Partitions and VIOs' states. However they are not able to create event based on this state. However to retire their legacy monitoring systems, the...
8 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Monitoring Virtual Target Device Span (VTD Span) on VIOs with Instana

With Instana IQM bundle, the customer would like to monitor if VTD (Virtual Target Disk) is mapped to Multiple Disks on VIOs. With the PMR TS019458836, IBM informed the customer that with current versions of Instana IQM bundle, it is not possible ...
8 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Adding Details on Instana Grafana Plugin Legend Format

On Instana Grafana plugin's legend format, the customer would like to retrieve the infrastructure details such as FQDN name, deployment name, pod name, container name. As soon as they only able to retrieve the MAC address, it wouldn't help to make...
8 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Support of IBM ACE on Windows

Supporting IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) on Windows for Monitoring Adding support for monitoring IBM ACE on Windows would greatly benefit development and QA teams who primarily use Windows environments during local testing and early-stage deplo...
22 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

All tables should have resizable colums

All UI tables should be able to resize its colums in order to see more information. Example: there are some tables that show incomplete urls and other columns that only show a number, but all columns have the same size and cannot be resized to see...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 5 Future consideration

Standardize the position and behavior of the search bar across all views by keeping it consistently on the left and fully clickable, improving usability and alignment with common UI patterns.

This change reduces user confusion and friction by making the search functionality predictable, discoverable, and easy to interact with across the entire platform. Consistency in UI placement supports faster navigation, reduces misclicks, and alig...
25 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Add a "PersistentVolumes" column to the Kubernetes Clusters view for quicker visibility and access to PV details and metrics

This enhancement would significantly improve observability and troubleshooting by making PersistentVolumes (PVs) immediately visible at the cluster level. Currently, users have to dig through multiple views to find storage-related information. Sur...
25 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted