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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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After maintenace window no alerts created if host is still unavailable

After monthly patching we have noticed if a maintenance window was put in and the host was patched and rebooted and if Instana sees it as unavailable after the maintenance window has finished we do not get an alert.
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Provide Customers the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget

Customer would like the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget. For example, one need for this would be for the Customer to set the country to "Oman" and also set the User ID to a ...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

'Current Transfers' does not match time span

For MFT, if you change the time span on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard the 'Transfer Statistics' chart is updated with the new time span. For the 'Current Transfers' table this does not happen, and it will only show the tran...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Auto detect JMX values

Requested is a feature where we have auto-discovery and i.e. have an ability to select which Metrics to show/activate JMX params are very difficult to reach (many clicks needed)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Tracing support for APIGee Hybrid

The Apigee product is "Apigee Edge". We are using Apigee as SaaS so we do not know about the current version. Regarding the use case:Apigee is our central API provider, e.g. for our AppEngine Single Page Applications but also all of our Middleware...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add priorityclassname to autotracewebhook helm chart

We have a highly dynamic environment and would like to ensure that cluster wide operators are available before customer workloads. The current helm chart for the autotracewebhook lacks the ability to set a priorityclassname in the deployment (http...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Send alert config id in alert notification

We are currently struggeling to correlate, which alert config has caused a notification being sent to our notification channel. It would be helpful to also receive a deep link to the alert config.
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Add blacklisting functionality of certain events in the alert configuration.

We really like the possibility to be able to alert on event types. However sometimes, a particular event is not relevant for a specific team and we want to disable it. It would be much more easy in this case to disable certain events in the contex...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Auto Profile support for AIX

Auto Profile support for AIX https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-profiles https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling From the above link: At the moment Aut...
about 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Cross teams/areas 3