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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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reduce alerts for Redundant Application Servers SAP

s it possible to use the SAP message server (which has an overview of all application servers) to monitor the application servers, in order to avoid Instana raising alerts for a down server when a replica is still ensuring service continuity?
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Instana Recipient List in Email Alert

Instana portal to check the recipient list. The client has raised the importance of having full visibility on who receives the alert without needing to navigate back to Instana, as this enhances transparency and efficiency in their workflow. This ...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Need the ability to customize the collection interval for the k8sensor

A number of customers are ingesting more data than the fair use policy allows and are being charged more for their SaaS environment. They want ways to customize the data that is being ingested. One of the largest sources of data in a number of our...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

To be able to support DB2Connect

Get metrics (and traces if possible) from DB2Connect.
3 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Instana UI has internal feature under Analyze infrastructure called "Graph" to visualize the Host entities combined together . I request this feature to deploy publicly.

I was on call with IBM customer for PHP Tracer showcasing the current support for AWS fargate. I used test-pink environment for the demo where they saw the graph feature of instana available only internally. They showed very keen interest to have ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Export analytics of calls and subcalls as image and as PDF-report

Provides complete information for ticketing systems without granting access to Instana. Enables communication with 3rd party vendors. Especially important to analyze calls with a large number of subcalls.
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Compress and store all metrics per day

This functionality provides a correct and reliable comparison of current to historical data (not based on extrapolations). Preserve the results as compressed metrics for all collected data per day. Extract the relevant statistics: count, average, ...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link connecting to the specific analyzed page for monitoring in detail

The customer in charge of IBM MQ monitoring requested the feature, which is "Instana Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link directly connected to the specific analyzed page" for monitoring in detail. The reason is that he wants to see the ...
4 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Enable Disk Filesystem Attributes (Filesystem Name, Used Space, Available Space) in Custom Payloads

Description: We would like to request the ability to include detailed disk filesystem attributes in the custom payload of alerts — particularly when sending alerts via webhook for disk usage thresholds. Currently, when we configure a custom alert ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Make results for service not in use in selected timerframe visible in analytic/API

We noted that the Applications dashboard in Instana displays the metrics (calls, latency, etc.) for each service, including those with no calls, regardless of the time window. However, when querying services in Analytics in Instana, services that ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review