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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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OpenTelemetry Infrastructure correlation improvement

The customer is using the standard Otel protocol exporter (via http/grpc) and sends data to the instana agent on the host. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol They can s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 8 Delivered

Custom event for disk status

Customer is looking to replace existing tool with Instana for IBM i monitoring. They are currently using an event trigger when disk is not found which is not currently possible with Instana. This request is to support custom event wherein customer...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Delivered

Support Akamai authentication NodeJS module

Akamai requires that you use their own NodeJS module for authenticating to use their APIs - https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/authenticate-with-edgegrid I'm requesting that the official Akamai module gets added to the supported third part...
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Delivered

FR - Smart alerts on mobile apps

Hi team, Currently smart alerts are available only on websites.Is it possible to add the smart alerts functionality on Mobile apps? https://instana.io/s/17TPqlXdT1q2u8FylOqDJw Thanks in advance Clarisse
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Delivered

Full support for sensors to run under a non-root account

Regarding IBM APM today: - For various company support and security reasons, we have all the agents running under a non-root account on AIX and Linux hosts with limited sudo setup required. Limited sudo setup in the sense where only dedicated full...
over 1 year ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Instana Self-Hosted make ports 8080 and 8081 configureable

Customer cannot use Instana onPrem environment as onPrem Instana requires 8080 and 8081 ports and doesn't allow to change the ports during installation. There is a software installed on all servers in customer environment as per policy of the cust...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Delivered

Support of ActiveMQ 5.18

Confirmed support for metrics and configuration data for versions: 5.11.1, 5.12.0, 5.13.1, 5.14.3, 5.15.2.Please consider to support higher versions of ActiveMQ e.g. 5.18 along with springboot 3x. The Request was already raised a while ago but did...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered

Instana tracing supporting envoy >= 1.22

We want to upgrade to envoy 1.22 but as of yet instana does not provide tracing for this version. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-envoy-distributed-tracing-binaries#envoy-115-and-later
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

re-occurring maintenance window

It appears the only way to set maintenance windows (to suppress alerts) is to setup a maintenance window but it only allows specific dates and times. Our maintenance windows are set by day of week and time (regardless of specific date). For exampl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

JVM: Add special group permission which would enable/disable users to run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump

Hello, Currently, any user that can view infrastructure map and particular JVM (Host -> process -> JVM) can run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump. This might cause problems in production environment if used irresponsible (it might cause slow...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered