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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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LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Adding Front Side Protocol to monitoring by Instana IBM DataPower sensor

Instana provides monitoring of Multi-Protocol Gateway. But we need to know the status of Front Side Protocol eg. HTTP Handler of the Gateway. Knowing the status (up/down) is very important. Please see attachment.
about 1 month ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

EUM Reporting - make limit or disabling EUM traffic available as protection

operational requirment is 'protect monitoring against unwanted load' by EUM
13 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
25 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Export analytics of calls and subcalls as image and as PDF-report

Provides complete information for ticketing systems without granting access to Instana. Enables communication with 3rd party vendors. Especially important to analyze calls with a large number of subcalls.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Compress and store all metrics per day

This functionality provides a correct and reliable comparison of current to historical data (not based on extrapolations). Preserve the results as compressed metrics for all collected data per day. Extract the relevant statistics: count, average, ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
5 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Enabling capturing synthetic calls

We noticed (with the support of a support ticket) that the option in "Configure Synthetic Endpoints" > "Auto-Detected Health/Ping Checks" needs to be enabled in order that calls from synthetic monitors are marked as synthetic. It would be usefu...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Distinguish synthetic calls

In the Analytics > Calls screen it's not possible to make a distinction between synthetic calls ("GET /actuator/health" for example) and synthetic calls that are coming from the Instana synthetic monitors. It would be great to have a filter pos...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration