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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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Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

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...
18 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Custom time range to schedule an instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
7 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Need the ability to customize the collection interval for the k8sensor

A number of customers are ingesting more data than the fair use policy allows and are being charged more for their SaaS environment. They want ways to customize the data that is being ingested. One of the largest sources of data in a number of our...
7 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Please add seconds parameter in the input dates field for UI time range section

In general, logs are generated at a nanosecond level. However, in Instana, the current filtering and time range adjustment options are limited to a minimum of one minute. While this granularity may suffice for some use cases, it becomes insufficie...
2 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

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

Create equivalent reporting for Instana based on Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) ITM agents and Z Enterprise agents

ITM and TCR are deprecated so customers who have moved away from ITM to Instana no longer have the reporting functionality
13 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

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...
21 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...
21 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted