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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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Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Improved functionality -Scheduling maintenance windows

The maintenance windows, but what happens when the window is active, is that the notifications are not sent through the alert channels that we have implemented, e.g.: no notification is sent through Teams or events to Service Now, however the even...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Support for Redis Sensor on native IBM i Agent

Redis is data service that is one of the most popular NoSQL DBs.
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Support for Apache Sensor on native IBM i agent

Apache is a commonly used open source web server that is likely adopted by many IBM i customers. Having sensor support would allow Apache services to be seen in calls/dependency mapping.
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Support for Python in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Python, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
3 months ago in Instana / Python / Sensor / Tracing 0 Under review

Introduce SFTP as an official source for downloading offline agent assemblies in Instana.

BWI has strict security and integrity regulations for corporate networking. Their secure download service only supports the SFTP protocol, and adding new protocols requires a lengthy approval process. To simplify their operations and adhere to the...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Get uptime report from Applications on Instana

We have configured Instana to monitor our applications and we would like to report on performance of the application i.e. CPU utilization memory, Disk IO and the overal uptime for the application, how can we get such a report from Instana or the A...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 5 Under review

Custom dashboard - last value

Through Prometheus, we are gathering in Instana a gauge metric that shows if an instance is active (1) or inactive (0). We'd like to show this value in a custom dashboard using a 'Big number widget' or a 'Top list widget'. It would be great if we ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review