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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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Support for Instana agent in AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) & Azure ARO (Azure Red Hat OpenShift)

Two major customers wants to monitor CP4I components (API Connect, MQ, ACE, etc.) with Instana, which is supported.CP4I is installed on managed OpenShift in AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) and Azure ARO ((Azure Red Hat OpenShift).The I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Delivered

Implement ElasticSearch Index Rotation

Currently there is no mechanism to clean up ElasticSearch Indices. That means the grow infinitely and searches will slow down. IBM provides scripts to clean up this indices with the delete_by_query api which deletes all documents older than a spec...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Delivered

AIX - Add additional memory insights

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows is memory consumed. It doesn't show any other memory metric trends (like paging, swap, etc.). Having this insight is key to us migrating to IBM Instana from IBM APM, which does show the...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and 3.4.x using /v3 endpoints

As per documentation instana is still using the /v2 endpoint to monitor etcd. /v2-API is deprecated (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/12913) Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and newer using /v3 endpoints should be added.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Official terraform support

We are managing all of our infra aspects as a code principle, because of that we would like to have instana terraform provider in order to create our alerts & dashboards as a code
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x

According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Java Tracing support for Spring Boot version 2.7.x

Currently, the db tracing breaks for spring-boot services with version 2.7.X. Calls against a MongoDB are not captured by Instana.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

Would like to define Warning and Critical threshold ranges within a single Event or SmartAlert

If a customer wants to create both a Warning and Critical threshold for the same underlying metric, they create either 2 Smart Alerts or 2 Events. For example, create a Warning Event when CPU usage is between 80% and 90% utilization and Critical E...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Close an incident

An incident (or issue) occurs and it appears to be a false positive.It would be useful that this incident can be closed with a comment for example
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Delivered

Support most recent Postgres JDBC Drivers (42.6+)

Following on from this case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002obXXWAA2/instana-trace-missing-expected-sql-execution?language=en_US It seems Instana supports JDBC (PostgreSQL) [7.4, 7.4], [8.4, 8.4], [9.0, 9.1] , however t he latest v...
12 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered