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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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Add Instana built-in metric for table spaces status (normal or abnormal)

I would like Instana has a built-in metric for table spaces status, the return value represents normal or abnormal. After this built-in metric available, then I can trigger an alert based on this built-in metric. Here is db2 reference about table ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Indicate the reason for alert (e.g. instana-builtin, instana-custom-rule, etc.)

When an alert is fired, we never know its source. Would be great to have in the Alert itself an information of where it's coming from (smart alert, builtin, custom event, etc.)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Filtering App Perspectives on Tags in child calls

We currently have a few use cases that mean we need to create an App Perspective that filters on a tag that is set on a child span of a parent span i.e. deeper within the code (we cannot pass it back up to the parent call). We create SLI metrics f...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Ping-checks: Add option "HTTP-method"

Hello, we are using your ping checks and just want to implement them more efficiently. Therefore it would be very helpful if we would have an option for "HTTP method", e.g. GET, POST, PUT, and so on. And also the option "body" is needed then proba...
about 2 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Dashboards with large timespans reduce the peaks and are less use-full

The "problem" I have is if you take a look as an example to the timings of the garbage-collection graph.I have here an app who does every 5 seconds a 300ms gc, if you are in the 10 minutes frame this is visible. I can go back 24 hours in this gran...
about 2 years ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Websphere Node Name tag to be available for Custom Payload

After configuring the offline event for any websphere entity in our environment, we did receive an email alert on websphere offline event. But it doesn't give any detail on which node the websphere went offline. I've attached a few pics for your r...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Alert on health check status of container not running in Kubernetes

Docker provides a healthcheck field, that determines the health status of a container (which can be retrieved from the .state.Health.Status field via docker inspect ). This field cannot be used in an alert today. Link: https://docs.docker.com/engi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Mutliple small Raw-Span PVCs instead of one large PVC

Answer: Use S3-comptabile object storage https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=openshift-api-reference#s3config for rawSpans to scale PVC limits We get the pvc from an external ceph cluster to openshift cluster. With 1000...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Not under consideration

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