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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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Documentation of backend health KPI

As on-prem customer we need an up-to version documentation on health check KPIs(as it confirmed existing for instanas SAAS envs)enabling us to enterprise level monitor Instana application
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Missing self monitoring from documentation for every release

As we are self hosting our instana backend we need to know what metrics etc we need to look for to make sure the instana backend is running correctly. As of now we have to guess what metric we have to check.
6 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Latency Alerts in http requests in Mobile Apps perpective

We believe that adding latency alerts in Instana's mobile app dashboard would significantly enhance our monitoring capabilities. Currently, while we can observe the latency of Android app calls, we are unable to create smart alerts based on this m...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

[Turbonomics] - Chef Automate

As a part of using RNA with Turbonomics, we would like to integrate with Chef as a part of the process. https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/ OpenAPI Spec: https://docs.chef.io/automate-api-docs/all-apis.swagger.json
19 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Planned for future release

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
19 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Extract information from the rules generated by the temporal training

Hello,Through the AIOps interface, we can view how a specific temporal rule was generated, including the information about the alerts that were grouped and the frequency at which they were found. However, in a scenario where, for example, tens of ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Submitted

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

How to set a password for the KeyStores and TrustStores when deploying IWA with Kubernetes/Helm Charts.

The password used to create the KeyStore and TrustStore is randomly generated. Even though it can be retrieved from the env variable SSL_PASSWORD or decoding the stash (sth) file, a facility must be provided to set it to a desired password. The fo...
4 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Park ASG's or VMSS from EKS/AKS clusters

As now, it's only supported park ASG's and VMSS's that is not related to k8s clusters. The demand is to shutdown and turn on an entire k8s clusters for cost savings. They are doing today using scripts and it's welcome bring this feature inside Tur...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted