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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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To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything For example, Job Queue Library is "QGPL" and count is >= 200
27 days ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Submitted

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.
27 days ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

add cluster mode enabled redis trace to redis sensor for rails application

support case Case number TS019348227
10 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
10 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
about 1 month ago in Instana 0 Submitted

Support for IBM MQ on native IBM i Agent

IBM MQ sensor support on IBM I agent locally.
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
4 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Under review

Instana and MS teams notification

Notification integration with MS teams to be two ways for example allow taking action from MSteams
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0