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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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Integrate with Bitbucket

We have support some pipeline integrations https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=apis-pipeline-feedback-integrations That can interact with our Releases feature in Instana https://instana.github.io/openapi/#tag/Releases H...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Instrument api calls with identity

We have an api that is exposed to third parties, that api is accessed using a token. We cannot trace the calls b/c there is no way to instrument or start a trace on the server with the identity of the user associated with the token. We would like ...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 6 Not under consideration

Instana - Update Prebuilt Dashboard for Tuxedo sensor

Under Oracle Tuxedo sensor > Tuxedo Machine > Queues dashboard, we see commas for the Sender PID and Receiver PID columns. However, for the Servers grid on that same page, the PID column doesn't have any commas:1) Please remove the commas fr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana - Add Group Descriptions

Today in IBM APM, we can add descriptions to user groups to give more information about what the user group is for. There is no way to do that in Instana today. Can it be added?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Allow Instana data source in Grafana to "Skip TLS verify" when using proxy

The Instana plugin in Grafana doesn't work if you use the proxy mode and the Instana on-prem uses a self signed certificate. You get this error message:Proxy request failed" err="x509: certificate signed by unknown authority" Most other data sourc...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Self-recovery in case of OOM error to improve reliability of the instana agent service

Background Instana agent has default JAVA heap as follows: JAVA_MIN_MEM=64mexport JAVA_MIN_MEMJAVA_MAX_MEM=160mexport JAVA_MAX_MEM Despite setting more than 3 times the heap size for JAVA_MAX_MEM (eg. 512m) over the nominal memory usage (eg. avera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Disk Trends - Ability to aggregate all disk usage trends into an aggregated single metric

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows in the prebuilt view are insights from individual file systems in terms of disk I/O. What is missing is an aggregated view that combines all the disk I/O together on the host like is cu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Alerts on Apdex/SLA/SLI/SLO

Currently the data is only visible on custom dashboards It would be nice to have the option to alert on this, and also have those more prominent in the Application Perspective Overview.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Future consideration

HPA values for a Kubernetes namespace

The customer would like to plot/monitor the HPA values [default CPU based] in Instana.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0

Instana API: Inclusion of Synthetic Trace Calls in Instana API Query for Analyze Trace

Dear IBM Instana Team, Our team frequently utilizes the Instana API to retrieve in-depth alarming details by closely scrutinizing trace details. This has significantly aided our performance analysis and error identification efforts. However, we ha...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release