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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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Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Dashboards with large timespans reduce the peaks and are less use-full

The "problem" I have is if you take a look as an example to the timings of the garbage-collection graph.I have here an app who does every 5 seconds a 300ms gc, if you are in the 10 minutes frame this is visible. I can go back 24 hours in this gran...
almost 2 years ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Websphere Node Name tag to be available for Custom Payload

After configuring the offline event for any websphere entity in our environment, we did receive an email alert on websphere offline event. But it doesn't give any detail on which node the websphere went offline. I've attached a few pics for your r...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana UI usable in iframe

We want to make certain alerts and metrics for our call readiness visible in a mobile app. Currently, the integration via iframe does not seem to be possible due to the frame-option setting. Can frame-option be configured by customer?
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 0 Needs more information

Needs to add Cluster Storage Drive Data in Instana

Team, our Dell S2D platform Cluster Storage information is not reported in Instana portal. Instana only reporting the specific Node native drives but not the cluster volumes.
almost 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Application Transaction Tracing for DataPower and MQ Appliances

This is idea is beneficial for all customers who employ DataPower and/or MQ appliances as part of their application infrastructure because it would enable them to gain a true 'end-to-end' view of their application flows. By enabling transactions t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

get license information from API

in order to be able to manage licenses, it would be great to have the possibility to query the license usage and license "valid to" dates from the API instead of manually gathering them from the UI.
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

IBM i - DATAQ message capacity monitoring

An event is required to be triggered when a DATAQ is close to full capacity. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=services-data-queue-info-view
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent. A customer is doing remote detection of problems. They want to be able to open an Event and have the Event indicate that it is affectin...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0