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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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Set Session Settings for User Groups

The option to set "User session timeout" and "Idle session timeout" (in Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings) in the Instana SaaS backend should be allowed to be set for groups of users, rather than for...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 1 Submitted

Instana must provide a "Matching Operator" that should be a 'NOT' (The 'NOT' is not available in the Instana UI drop down) for host entity types

Bradesco customer is moving from ITM into the realm of Instana. There are currently using several thresholds that involves checking a disk NOT equal to /disk-path-here. For example look at the below ITM situations; i) *IF *VALUE KLZ_Disk.Inodes_Us...
26 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 3 Functionality already exists

Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
20 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted

More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
28 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Support for FrankenPHP

FrankenPHP, a PHP server built on top of Caddy, was recently adopted by the PHP Foundation (see https://les-tilleuls.coop/en/blog/frankenphp-is-now-officially-supported-by-the-php-foundation and https://github.com/php/frankenphp), and it can be us...
8 days ago in Instana / PHP 0 Submitted

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
4 months ago in Instana / Go 1 Under review

Metric and Dashboard for Server Uptime

Hi Team!Anyway to get Server Uptime information ?Most observability solutions have this feature, so would be very welcome Instana as well. Having server uptime visible in dashboards or alerts provides operational clarity and helps identify issues ...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version, the workaround was to downgrade the lib to 10.5.0-2 Already discussed with Brock Shamblin I think we should either provide a support or mention this in the documen...
16 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Use GPS for geolocation instead of IP address for more accurate location

For real user monitoring or EUM (end-user monitoring): would be great if we can use GPS on mobile device for more accurate geolocation besides using IP Address
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Submitted