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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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Support for Documentum DFC version 22

We are currently not able to detect potential issue with our Documentum application. At the moment we have visibility only at the application itself but cannot see where the calls are going due to the missing support on the DFC library. Because of...
18 days ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted

Instana's capability to ingest storage speed metrics from IBM i's host

Summary: Why is it useful? This will help clients to quickly detect and identify when something is wrong with their IBM i system especially when it has something to do with storage (read and write speed, causing slowness) Who would benefit from it...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Allow the Instana agent to monitor CP4BA

Creating this idea but we also have created a case b/c we do not know if this is a defect or enhancement req. Problem Description:Currently, Instana cannot monitor CP4BA. CP4BA has made their container image filesystems readonly and the Instana ag...
10 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Business Monitoring: adding a limited access to the user of a group for particular business processes

The customer Iveco wants that some users can see some business processes and other users can see other business processed. More or less we sould have a "limited acess" radio button in the group configuration like the application perspective.
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Planned for future release

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring Artemis MQ with Instana

Dear IBM Team, We utilize extensive queuing for our applications and are planning to transition to Artemis. To ensure seamless monitoring, we would like to integrate Artemis MQ with Instana. Thank you for your assistance. Best regards, Meghraj Ram...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Need to monitor compiled python applications with any name of the application

Dear Colleagues, Our customer is using third party python application that they need to trace and monitor, the third-party vendor has issued the application image instrumented with Instana, but the application is compiled for performance reasons a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Python 0 Planned for future release

Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 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...
12 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted