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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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Instana

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Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

Collect kubernetes metrics health SLIs

Since Kubernetes 1.26, you can configure Service Level Indicator (SLI) metrics for the Kubernetes components binaries. Once you enable them, Kubernetes will expose the SLI metrics in the /metrics/slis endpoint https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Ignore/ suppress / downtime function for events

Currently there is function called "Maintenance windows" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=alerts-scheduling-maintenance-windows This is lacking the functionality to prevent the events from showing up in the Events lo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

Adding Connection metrics in IBM MQ Channel while creating Instana Events

Connection metric should be included while defining event for IBM MQ Channel. Giving the user privilege to define event to monitor connections made to a channel.
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Alerting based on content of logs

Some erroneous calls might be considered OK based on the logs of that call, so with the new feature we should be able to alert only when specific logs appear and also exclude some logs from generating an alert. This way the client could reduce the...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Planned for future release

Add ability to send email to ALL users

I would be very helpful to have the ability to send an email to ALL users. We are an on-prem installation.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 1 Not under consideration

Instana agent must bring metrics from multiple database services with different ports on local host.

The current Instana implemented code picks the “port” number from configuration.yaml file and figures out that what is database service name (or SID) and connects and brings-in corresponding metrics. IBM developers may update the code to read mult...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Allow APScheduler to be supported on Instana

APScheduler library is not supported by Instana. I have written an automation code that uses the library. Since the library is not supported by Instana, the traces are not getting collected to be monitored. I request Instana team to kindly include...
11 months ago in Instana / Python 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring FileNet with Instana

We want to monitor FileNet product by using Instana. We can monitor FileNet calls using the power of Instana.
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

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