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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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Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
6 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
22 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Future consideration

COPA OA: Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. 

Dashboard templates Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. The standard out-of-box dashboards show a dump of all metrics. Curated dashboard templates for use cases that can be activ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Under review

COPA OA: Flexible dashboarding for metric correlation needed

Need ability to study correlated metrics. For example, how is the CPU and disk usage behaving with user load? How is garbage collection affecting response times? Comparison of different metrics on the fly is available in ITCAM that is not availabl...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Under review

COPA OA: Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.

Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.Need the capability to generate thread dumps to view the current thread activity. This is useful for long running wor...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Submitted

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration