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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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Logging integration with Grafana Loki

Feature Request: We would like to connect our Instana with Grafana Loki, so we can benefit from a centralized (Instana) place to view and analyze logs and metrics. Currently Instana supports ELK,Splunk, Coralogix, Humio and Mezmo. Any considoratio...
8 months ago in Instana / Logging 4 Not under consideration

Db2 custom workload's metrics

Current Instana supports only Db2's default workload (SYSDEFAULTUSERWORKLOAD). In many cases, Db2 users create custom workload(s). Such users would be happy if Instana can collect these custom workloads' metrics.
8 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Planned for future release

Edit the evaluation granularity for a smart alert

The minimum evaluation granularity for a smart alert is limited at 5 mins, We need to change it so that we get alerts related to slow calls etc which may not persist for more than 5 minutes. Below is a real time scenario. When will a person be ale...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Built-in Event: Kubernetes Node condition status event correlation between kubernetes node scaling events

Once our cluster scales down, usually, our node/nodes will be terminated status(or unknown). But it doesn’t mean our nodes are not healthy. It just scales down. We are getting many mentioned event notifications, and our engineers are missing the a...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Implement support for SNS -> Lambda or HTTPS in the Node.js tracer.

Implementing support for SNS -> Lambda or HTTPS in the Node.js tracer is useful because it will extend the functionality of the system, allowing integration with additional services that are not currently supported. This will benefit developers...
8 months ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Ability to change Instana Tenant Names and Add Description

Need ability to change tenant names displayed without impacting monitoring of applications and add description along with tenant names in Instana Tenant Switcher page. Please Note : No modifications in the URL's is required as it would impact moni...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Application Transaction Tracing for DataPower and MQ Appliances

This is idea is beneficial for all customers who employ DataPower and/or MQ appliances as part of their application infrastructure because it would enable them to gain a true 'end-to-end' view of their application flows. By enabling transactions t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Request for support NGINX plus R32

We would like to request the addition of support for NGINX Plus R32 in the IBM Instana Observability platform. Based on the current documentation, the latest supported version of NGINX Plus is: NGINX Plus R31 for Glibc-based Linux and Alpine Linux
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

IBM i - DATAQ message capacity monitoring

An event is required to be triggered when a DATAQ is close to full capacity. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=services-data-queue-info-view
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add alerting condition / Request Impact "Total Calls in Alert Scope" to smart alerts

Using smart alerts in Instana, we are currently able to define the absolute number of requests Impacted within the alerting condition (time threshold). See attachment 01 It is however in most cases much more relevant to set up a threshold for a to...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration