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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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Logging integration with Grafana Loki

Feature Request: We would like to connect our Instana with Grafana Loki, so we can benefit from a centralized (Instana) place to view and analyze logs and metrics. Currently Instana supports ELK,Splunk, Coralogix, Humio and Mezmo. Any considoratio...
5 months ago in Instana / Logging 4 Not under consideration

Db2 custom workload's metrics

Current Instana supports only Db2's default workload (SYSDEFAULTUSERWORKLOAD). In many cases, Db2 users create custom workload(s). Such users would be happy if Instana can collect these custom workloads' metrics.
5 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Planned for future release

Support OracleDB for Golang

Currently our agent support most of the general databases, would be great if we can support OracleDB so it valued customers to see insightful traces. At the mean time, Dynatrace is also releasing the support for Go-Oracle-connector libraries.
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Instana grouping in Analyze Calls for Smart Alert Event by blueprint template

If you jump from smart alert event to analytc by clicking on "Analyze Calls" the predefined grouping seems to be defaulted to 'by endpoint'.It would help a lot if grouping would be done by templated blueprint criteria.
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 6 Not under consideration

Remote monitoring PostgreSQL

With switching to a new hosting provider we won't be able to install Instana agent locally to PostgreSQL-servers anymore. To have end-to-end visibility, please provide a means to configure the Instana agent to monitor PostgreSQL clusters running o...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Implement support for SNS -> Lambda or HTTPS in the Node.js tracer.

Implementing support for SNS -> Lambda or HTTPS in the Node.js tracer is useful because it will extend the functionality of the system, allowing integration with additional services that are not currently supported. This will benefit developers...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 0 Future consideration

Add business metrics to Instana traces for IIB and ACE

The current implementation of both IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and App Connect Enterprise (ACE) could emit business metrics through monitoring events which are published through MQ topics. A similar implementation with the connection through OpenTel...
about 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Future consideration

Request for support NGINX plus R32

We would like to request the addition of support for NGINX Plus R32 in the IBM Instana Observability platform. Based on the current documentation, the latest supported version of NGINX Plus is: NGINX Plus R31 for Glibc-based Linux and Alpine Linux
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Provide typings for NodeJS @instana/collector package

It would be nice to have typings for IDE Intellisense and compile-time checks, as originally requested in https://github.com/instana/nodejs/pull/458. I believe that Typescript plays an increasingly important role in the NodeJS ecosystem with frame...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node 1 Not under consideration