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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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No way to write thresholds against custom parameters configured via the "Configuration Based SDK"

If I use the Configuration Based SDK (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk), I can add custom information into the traces. That data can be visualized in the UI. But, there i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Oracle OpenTelemetry link to db.sqlid.value to open monitor in new window

- Configure a Global link on Opentelemetry data-field: Db.sqlid (might want to make it generic.) - Link opens a predefined link https://<link>/<db.sqlid.value > in a new window. When a user clicks the value to db.sqlid, it opens a new ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Make the metrics for "max_metrics_reached" with the limit accessible for alerts

We hit the "max_metrics_reached" on one of our tenants on an agent and we had to reach out to support (TSo17688362) for assistance. Support requested a metric limit increase, which removed the message and allowed the agent to capture more metrics ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

threshould managenet for every individual service/host

the threshold management is not easy. we cant configure builtin events and we cant easily change the threshould for services we have to create a new event with new threshould also we cant create the builtin events with different threshoulds as well.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

I can see the AWS documenDB metrics in the infrastructure page however don't see any DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Services page

I can see the AWS documenDB metrics in the infrastructure page however don't see any DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Services page. So i request instana team to list DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Servi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Submit complex IBM ELM JVM Mbeans or string based Mbeans as events or logs to Instana

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Extending Instana JAVA-Sensor to collect additional metrics from IBM ELM JVM's

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling Oracle

this is usefull as 1 sec graularity for DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS will rise license issue in ORACLE. To add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling ensure customer not to breach ORA license as Instana Agent Remote login and read tablespa...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic support for Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), KVM and OCPV

The current supported hypervisors targets are vCenter, PowerVM and Hyper-V, but not RHV, KVM and OCPV.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Planned for future release

Access Point White/Blacklist for the WLCCollector config.

Similar to how we can disable aggregations and stations in the config files for WLCCollector, we could make a new flag for AP_WL (Access Point Whitelist) and AP_BL_ALL (Access Point Blacklist All). Some great integrations we could do is with AP_WL...
9 months ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 0 Future consideration