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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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Enable recording access logs for each Instana tenants with different tenant and unit names.

[Background] The customer has created separate tenants for the production and development environments.According to the Case, when there are two Instana tenants(Tenant#1,Tenant#2) with different a tenant name and a unit name, and when users logged...
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Delivered

Monitoring Forked Processes in PHP

Description: We would like to propose the addition of functionality to monitor forked processes in PHP. Currently, there are monitoring tools available for PHP, but there is a lack of capability to monitor specifically forked processes. This is pa...
11 months ago in Instana / PHP 3 Delivered

Threshold on the same metric twice within the same

Customers need the ability to threshold on the same metric twice within the same Event. It is VERY common for customers to want to setup two different Events (1 warning and 1 critical). They way they achieve that is something like the following: W...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Kong - Add support for missing metrics for admin token based authentication

According to the url - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-kong-api-gateway-open-beta#viewing-metrics the below metrics should be supported. We have observed that the below panels are not capturi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Delivered

MSSQL Polling rate

Currently, the ability to control or set the polling rate in database sensors are available in DB2 and Oracle, but not MSSQL. The DB performance is impacted by having an aggressive polling rate, and we'd like to adjust it. This is causing high res...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Delivered

Custom Dashboards: Creating calculated values and then plotting them

In custom dashboards today, we can't seem to create a calculated value and then plot it as a single line. For example: 1) Go to dashboards and create a new time series widget. 2) Use data source: Infrastructure & Platforms 3) For metrics, u...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

Action Script support for IBM i local monitoring

I tested action script (Bash or Python) from IBM i native agent (local monitoring), but the error "cannot identify the OS" occurred. Please add the function to support action script on IBM i host agent.
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Delivered

#EMEA #SPGI Add support for PHP 8.1

Durign a PoC with a public transport agency in Spain we have discovered that Instana does not support PHP 8.1, most of their develepment is based on PHP frameworks so not having this tracing capability for this version of PHP does not allow them t...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 8 Delivered

FR - Smart alerts on mobile apps

Hi team, Currently smart alerts are available only on websites.Is it possible to add the smart alerts functionality on Mobile apps? https://instana.io/s/17TPqlXdT1q2u8FylOqDJw Thanks in advance Clarisse
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Delivered

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered