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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?

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Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
3 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Extract information from the rules generated by the temporal training

Hello,Through the AIOps interface, we can view how a specific temporal rule was generated, including the information about the alerts that were grouped and the frequency at which they were found. However, in a scenario where, for example, tens of ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

A list of all Data Insight Report and Maps owners should be a feature for DI admins, to export, in tabular format

DI users have requested that a Data Insight administrator user should be able to export a list of reports and maps. Several support tickets have been opened for this. It is possible to generate a list of reports with owners on the DI backend. Ther...
6 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
11 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

Hide Tabs/Reports related to unused CSP

We have several CSP and non-CSP integrations, but not a single one to OCI. Despite that, OCI is "randomly"* present in various forms: - Optimize > Rightsizing - Apptio BI reports - Cloudability reports - Settings > Workload planning preferen...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
21 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Latency Alerts in http requests in Mobile Apps perpective

We believe that adding latency alerts in Instana's mobile app dashboard would significantly enhance our monitoring capabilities. Currently, while we can observe the latency of Android app calls, we are unable to create smart alerts based on this m...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
21 days ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2 Submitted