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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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Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
11 days ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

Support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL"

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL" instances.The customer wants to monitor all IBM Cloud services on Instana, but Instana doesn't support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databas...
11 days ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics

Hi Team, We are in need of CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics to identify the pod crash which is a mandatory requirement.
11 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Flutter Multiple Backend Configuration

Currently, Instana flutter agent (and mobile app in general) only support sending monitoring data to a single backend. For customer with high availability active-active setup, sending data to 1 backend will definitely impact the data availability....
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

WebMethods Integration Server Support

We need a WebMethods Integration Server 10.x support for our customer. In the flow where WebMethods Integration Server resides, the JVM is the smallest component that has calls passing through it, just like WebSphere Application Server. Thus, the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 3

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review

Enable recording access logs for each Instana tenants with different tenant and unit names.

[Background] The customer has created separate tenants for the production and development environments.According to the Case, when there are two Instana tenants(Tenant#1,Tenant#2) with different a tenant name and a unit name, and when users logged...
24 days ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 0

RPC call in Instana is not capturing http status code

http code for WCF is mapped as RPC calls in Instana UI and same has been confirmed in the support ticket, we would like to get correct mapping for all http codes in WCF.
6 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Planned for future release

Discovery of IIS Workers and WebSphere Instances which does not have any calls for a specific time bound

Detail: Since the inventory we monitor with Instana is very large, we do not know which IIS Worker and / or WebSphere instances are being called or not. We want the IIS Worker and WebSphere instances that does not have any calls are discovered by ...
13 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted