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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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Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Future consideration

Need to support Oracle LDAP

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Oracle LDAP as a corporate identity provider system. Instana allows users in, however it doesn't allow to map groups with Instana groups for centralised user management. Customer has found that Instana includ...
6 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Enhance End user monitoring to make it fully functional with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform

The IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform (ELM) is widely used within the automotive industry. It is based on IBM Websphere Application Server with IBM HTTP Server for the web based application. To be able to trace performance issues with ...
6 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Submitted

Action Script support for IBM i local monitoring

I tested action script (Bash or Python) from IBM i native agent (local monitoring), but the error "cannot identify the OS" occurred. Please add the function to support action script on IBM i host agent.
6 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Add an integration with a source code management/testing tools such as GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins to measure Four Key Metrics(DORA Metrics)

Background: In today's software development landscape, achieving high performance in delivering software is crucial for gaining a competitive edge. DORA(DevOps Reaserch and Assessment) Metric, also known as the Four Key Metrics, provide a standard...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 4 Future consideration

Instana's capability to ingest storage speed metrics from IBM i's host

Summary: Why is it useful? This will help clients to quickly detect and identify when something is wrong with their IBM i system especially when it has something to do with storage (read and write speed, causing slowness) Who would benefit from it...
28 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information