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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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EUM Crash Reporting - programmatic creation of crash report configuration via Instana API

We need a way to programatically e.g. by calling the Instana api setup a new crash report configuration.We were told that instana api does not currently support this function
17 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1

Support for IBM MQ on native IBM i Agent

IBM MQ sensor support on IBM I agent locally.
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Monitoring Oracle Fussion

Oracle Fusion is a platform for enterprise applications in the cloud that includes tools for business management, the customer makes use of Oracle Fusion Middleware for the development of its core business applications and therefore it is key to b...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Add the Ability to Create Alerts on Usage

Customer is using CRIO They are asking for the ability to create alerts on the following: Namespace: stg-cp4i-ace Pods: contains stg1* 1. CPU: 95% usage of cpu requests 2. Memory: 95% usage of the requests Checked with @Jayanth Putta and confirmed...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Under review

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Please make time based configuration timezone based

in e.g. SLO with daily interval when change to dst and back two times a year the timebucket is not in-line with the time the user see in the ui which is leading eg to daily SLO which was created 24h starting 12 am is after change to dst now starti...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Planned for future release

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Need a way to detect that the input rate on a queue is exceeding the output rate

The customer has applications where the consuming application components occasionally have problems. They don't consume the messages off the queue fast enough. If this happens for a very short period of time, it is not a problem. But, when it occu...
22 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted