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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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More details about unmonitored servers or components

Ability to automatically identify candidate servers for monitoring because they interact with the monitored applications or servers. This will uncover any relationships with critical application elements that may have been overlooked in current ob...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

AWS Fargate Agent for Nuxt.js Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports the following Fargate Collectors: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargateWe would be happy if you could add support for Nuxt.js as well.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 0 Submitted

Need to see whether an IBM MQ trace is a Put or a Get

The customer is monitoring an application where the first transaction that is monitored is a PUT onto a Queue within IBM MQ. The customer is using the Instana User Exit and it is set to DEBUG mode to force the Exit to trace all transactions. Curre...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Need the ability to monitor IBM MQ Alias Queues

The customer uses Alias Queues for the IBM MQ applications. Within Instana, Alias Queues are not monitored. So, the customer has no visibility into what's happening within their applications. For example, when they look at the Traces going through...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Submitted

JMX Metric unit labeling is confusing at best

FROM TS017727981 We are using JMX metrics for datasources # Java & Custom JMX com.instana.plugin.java: jmx: - object_name: 'oracle.ucp.admin.UniversalConnectionPoolMBean:*' metrics: - attributes: 'borrowedConnectionsCount,availableConnectionsC...
6 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted

Need tracing support for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Dear colleagues, we have a large customer who uses WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (java app): https://github.com/wso2/product-ei/blob/release-6.6.0 when they instrument it they miss half of calls. They see much more calls in Dynatrace, it affects Inst...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Custom time range to schedule an instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
2 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

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...
2 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

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 ...
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted