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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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OS filters in mobile app in dashboard

- For Android, we have the list of device type. So it's impossible to filter by the version of Android (Android 14, Android 15, ...). - For iOS, we have only iOS or iPadOS. So it's impossible to filter by the version (iOS 15, 16, 17, ...).
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Prometheus complex queries in Custom Dashboards

Hi team, I want to use Prometheus complex queries in widgets, something like this: sum( avg(container_cpu_allocation) by (pod,node) * on (node) group_left() avg(avg_over_time(node_cpu_hourly_cost[10m])) by (node) * on (pod) group_left() label_repl...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Create event on CPU/Memory usage (K8S)

Hi, We want to configure an Instana event on Kubernetes. This event should warn us when the used memory or cpu is at a certain level on the deployment. Currenly it is not possible to create an event on this. Can you create this possibility? Thanks...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Allow more flexibility in Instana-agent HelmChart

Hi IBM-Instana team, We use the instana-agent to monitor our services which are running in an air-gapped environment. We have a fully automated pipeline for mirroring images and HelmChart and for wrapping the HelmChart with our custom configuratio...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Future consideration

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z 2 Not under consideration

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Crash analytics can be implemented using Flutter

I run a PoC in a client's environment using Instana SaaS tenant. Out of several scenarios there is this crash analytics. As the applications built using Flutter framework for dart programming language, their developer expects that Instana crash an...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Future consideration

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
9 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Future consideration

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration