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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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Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Email integration with the atlassian status page - Need dynamic configuration to be added as placeholder in email alert notification .

We would like up and down keyword to be send in email subject to integrate instana synthetic monitor with the atlassian status page as the email component only works in that way. Atlassian requirement : https://support.atlassian.com/statuspage/doc...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

MSSQL Polling rate

Currently, the ability to control or set the polling rate in database sensors are available in DB2 and Oracle, but not MSSQL. The DB performance is impacted by having an aggressive polling rate, and we'd like to adjust it. This is causing high res...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Delivered

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8 series

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for 6.0 and 6.7 series. Support for DSE 6.8 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 3 Delivered

Add authenticator module support in Instana Synthetics

The authenticator module (https://www.npmjs.com/package/authenticator) will help scripted browser tests respond to 2FA with an automatically generated TOTP. This helps automate Web pages that implement and enforce 2FA.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Delivered

Need secure communications from the Instana Agent/Sensor to the IBM i server

Currently, all communications from the Instana Agent/sensor to the IBM i system are insecure. The customer needs to have SSL communications to ensure that traffic is secure.
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Delivered

support requests routed by the Apache Sling

Requests routed by the Apache Sling is not properly handled by the Java Trace plugin. We have noticed that Instana is capturing Apache Sling calls as erroneous calls. We have raised a support ticket with Instana support and the suggestion was to r...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 11 Delivered

Support Java21

Hello, We would like the Instana agent to be able to supervise java21 (as well as virtual threads). Best Regards
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered