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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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Support for Tracing Istio Ingress Gateways on OCP

Customer using Istio Ingress Gateways on OCP cannot trace calls going through this component, losing visibility on the latency and balancing provided by this component. Adding this will complete the view end-to-end of a call entering an OCP cluste...
11 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 1 Planned for future release

"IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Transfers" is not available in Grafana

"IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Transfers" is not exposed in Instana, unlike "IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Agent" and "IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Coordination Queue Manager". This means that you cannot select "IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Transfer...
11 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Retrieving Error Information for traces with the New V2 API Endpoint

We have encountered an issue with the new Instana APM tool API v2 and require your assistance to resolve it. **Problem Description:** Previously, we have been using the endpoint `//api/application-monitoring/analyze/traces/{id}` to obtain details ...
11 months ago in Instana / API-C 0 Planned for future release

Otel C++ SDK official support in AIX and RHEL

Now Otel C++ SDK is supported only for Ubuntu 2020 and Windows 2016.But in the IBM delivered financial systems, C++ applications are running in AIX and RHEL, which are considered to be more appropriate for Enterprise usecase. Please add Otel C++ S...
11 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Planned for future release

Filter the 'Current Transfers' table

The 'Current Transfers' table (for MQ MFT) currently shows the transfers as 'Successful', 'Completely Failed', 'Started' or 'Progress'. Could you add a filter to this table, for example with checkboxes, so we could filter in/out (un)wanted statuses?
12 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support for httpd tracing library for Apache web server on z/Linux (s390x)

This support is critical for clients on z/Linux who have IBM IHS, which is based on httpd
12 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Planned for future release

Reference-able filter of infrastructure entities

User story As an Instana user,who is in the process of specifying a filter on a set of infrastructure entities,in order to view these entities, to detect issues on them, or to configure maintenance windows on them, I want to have a way to persist ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Need to include GRANT statements in the documentation

Customers struggle in setting up the applications so that they can be monitored by Instana. In our DB2 sensor documentation, we include the privileges that are required in order to monitor the database, but we don't include the commands necessary ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Capability to forecast on metrics

Provide ability to forecast the outcome of any metric, including custom metrics, based on any context forecasts context (tag/label/etc.) and scale dynamically with infrastructure and applications. Similar capability to what competitors have: Datad...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

Allow custom events be created for entity type: IBM MQ MFT Monitor

Currently, IBM MQ MFT Monitor is not available as an entity type to select when creating a custom event. The use case would be to create a custom event on IBM MQ MFT Monitor when they are in a status other than STARTED.
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release