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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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Smart alerts should have a severity placeholder

With build " 1.282.1064" the smart alerts got a very useful ability to have warning and critical thresholds defined on a single smart alert. This was a welcomed change and reduce our planned alert set by half. However, we were also expecting to be...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1

Expansions of Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Decouple the smart alert title with the subject of the resulting email. Currently with the title and subject line being the same, the display for smart alerts shows the placeholders which have no real meaning in the context of smart alert listings.
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Insana Alerting - JS errors based on error rate while using multiple filter conditions

We are trying to do alerting for JS errors based on error rate as the metric is available within alerting scope, but it's not working as expected. When applying different filter expressions within our JS alerting scope, the error rate metric isn't...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under 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

At the time of first reviewing the case to request for the backend server logs to be preserved by the SaaS team for retrospective review.

During the initial review of a case, the SaaS team should be able to save the back-end server logs and conduct a retrospective review.Of course, the customer needs to report the issue as soon as possible in order to have the best chance of preserv...
10 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Grafana plugin: Support regex in metric field

Hello, I would like to use regex in metric field in order to show one metric (e.g. Free pool size) for all applications in same graph/panel. Best regards, ldrascic
about 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Alert for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)

We are submitting a Instana feature request for the introduction of Built-in Events specifically for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). The current lack of alerts when the ACE Integration Node is stopped poses a challenge, as A...
about 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Addition of new Specific database monitoring metrics that are not part of current Instana buit in metrics

Customer have below requirements : for MSSQLSERVER monitoring. 1. Who created any login in SQL server --(Host/username should be displayed ) 2. Who deleted any login in SQL server -- (Host/username should be displayed ) 3. Password changes -- (Hos...
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Not under consideration

Sensor version and info per API

Currently it is not possible to query the version of a sensor being used by an agent. For many on-prem customers, the ability to get information programatically as seen in the screenshot (Sensor Info via the Agent Dashboard) will help automate tas...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Logging API and Grafana as log aggregator

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Grafana Loki as a log aggregator solution, their business is linked to it, their SREs use capabilities of searching filtering logging of that component. At the moment they consider using Instana as an applica...
5 months ago in Instana / Logging 3 Not under consideration