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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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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

CLOSE_WAIT status monitoring

We need Instana to monitor, alert and publish CLOSE_WAIT status for running processes on a host. It will be used for troubleshooting as well as proactive measure to avoid any potential outage.
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Attach instana unix agent only to specific JVMs (inverse of INSTANA_IGNORE)

Hello, I would like to make a request for ability to attach instana agent only to specific JVMs (not to all JVMs that exists on application host which is current default). I found that there is INSTANA_IGNORE=true JVM environment variable ( https...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Need to see NUMA Scoring from HMC per Lpar in Instana

Hi for HANA on Power it is essentiall to see the NUMA Scoring for each VM from HMC in Instana
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

How can know the Consumers counts for which queue in Instana, We can only see the total here

I WANT TO want to know for each queue how many consumer there are. the count number are the total number for each queue there in instana. we can see the queue list below in instana,but I want to know how many number count for each queue have(we ca...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Analytics filters

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name into Analytics filters? This would be useful because it would allow us to group calls by those WebSphere information. Something similar is already done...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future 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

Request to upgrade agent code and corresponding sensors to detect all hazelcast applications in the packaged folder.

When two or more Springboot with hazelcast applications are packaged and run into a single tomcat server’s webapps folder, only one of them is detected. Upgrade agent code and corresponding sensors to detect all hazelcast applications in the above...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration