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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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Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Analytics Calls value link

Hi Would be nice if you could take values from the calls details page and make it an variable in a link to another site. The use case is customer is using OTEL and we get "db.sqlid" value klsdjf9034r. The customer is requesting if we could have a ...
8 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Ability to setup event on multiple conditions

The possibility to compare / set into relation more than one value in an Event definition? I mean I have Data Source, Metric, Operator, ... - but only for _one_ parameter. What I need is something like this: Value A > 70% value of B -> Alert...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Export Config Data to CSV/XML Format As Well

Today, Instana API calls like ../api/events/settings/event-specifications/custom return data in JSON format only. Going forward potential enhancement options: 1) The U/I provides a way to export this sort of config data and allows it to be ex...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Ability to monitor IBM Cloud MySQL DBaaS

We're currently missing the ability to monitor MySQL DBaaS hosted by IBM Cloud in depth. Maybe it's possible to task an agent to connect to a remote MySQL database using a agent running somewhere else. We'd like to get some performance stats, open...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Run FlightRadar and Instana Agent together

Unfortunately it is not possible to run FlightRadar and Instana together. This has been confirmed with our Engineering Team.Need a supported way to solve this issue , we already know about the incompatible agent workaround. To resolve the issue, r...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration