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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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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

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

Save Filter, Group and Facet settings in Analytics, like Infrastructure saved filters

Analytics is great, however is a burden to repeat the filter/group criterias, and sometimes also the facets. I know, I could get the shortlink to the panel, but what happens if I miss the link ? Yes, redo everything from scratch. Please consider t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

Support for Db2 Connect

Transaction flow where we are accessing Db2 for z/OS data with Db2 Connect support is needed.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 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

Remove Android Character Limit

I would like to request that the android-agent in the CustomEvent file be updated to remove the 1024-character limit on logs. This is because the current limit is causing logs to be truncated from Android devices, whereas they are not from iOS dev...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Time Based Monitoring

We have several Monitors which are timing based and trigger on Certain days/date and time. Currently Instana doesn’t handle these requests.
6 months ago in Instana 0 Submitted

Instana UI - show approximation level for on sampled data

show approximation level (100%, 10%, 1%) and samping logic in-a-nutshell in Analytic View while sampling is active
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

We want to control how often we access AzureStorage

We are experiencing problems with AzureStorage monitoring using Instana. The problem is that excessive access to AzureStorage causes "TooManyAccess" errors. According to Azure support, this error is over access from a subscription perspective and ...
6 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release