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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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Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Need tracing support for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Dear colleagues, we have a large customer who uses WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (java app): https://github.com/wso2/product-ei/blob/release-6.6.0 when they instrument it they miss half of calls. They see much more calls in Dynatrace, it affects Inst...
15 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Siebel Tracing and Monitoring with IBM Instana

We want to monitor Oracle Siebel application and have installed Instana agent on Oracle Siebel servers. We can see siebel in the list of discovered applications however, we are unable to view its API calls. only /siebel api can be seen and we are ...
16 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
10 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Enabling tracing on Azure API Management

Azure API Management is a hybrid multi-cloud platform to manage APIs in all environments, although today we have metrics on the solution already enabled are not enough to identify the transactions that go through the platform, for this reason it i...
17 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted