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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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Windows Service status

It would be great if we could see and alert on the status of Windows Services, Running, Stopped, Started etc. The current "Services" section in the configuration file is really just process monitoring. We need a clear distinction between the two.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 4 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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 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

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Delivered

With Infra Smart Alerts provide a way to prevent auto closure

Problem/use-case: We have a subset of alerts that are triggered based on problems that happen in an instant (1-shot) where the events are in good right away. Such Issues are for example triggered by a metric which only shows a short spike. Consequ...
4 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered

IsBank wants Instana to support Oracle ODP (Oracle.DataAccess.Client) library version 4.122.x and above. Current support is 4.121.

We are experiencing some problems in monitoring the card system side, one of our most critical systems, on Instana. While the Oracle ODP (Oracle.DataAccess.Client) library version on the relevant servers is 4.122.1, Instana supports 4.121.2 and be...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

Logs of span rate limiting should be write in INFO level in agent.log to detect it worked.

Instana manual explains as following; > If you see logs like Suppressed spans due to high number of short or Discarded span due to queue overflow in the agent log, it means that the Java tracer experienced heavy load on span processing. The des...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 2 Delivered

Custom event for disk status

Customer is looking to replace existing tool with Instana for IBM i monitoring. They are currently using an event trigger when disk is not found which is not currently possible with Instana. This request is to support custom event wherein customer...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 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