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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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Remote monitoring of MSSQL

It would be useful to have the ability to remotely monitoring SQL only.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Improve i-Series agent performance

Using Instana to monitor IBM i-Series system is not being to successful due to the agent being to heavy on the CPU usage of the i-Series. We need an improvement on the performance of the agent, which currently is to heavy and clients are not willi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Is a defect

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
11 months ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

For instana to support monitoring of Solace

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to add Dynamic Custom payloads to Alerts

Need to be able to add Dynamic custom payloads to an Alert. Currently, within Instana, you can add Dynamic custom payloads globally. But many parameters don't make sense to add globally. For example, I don't want to add an MQ Queue Name to a java ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Ability to rename the Apache HTTPd process name

We have multiple http servers from different environments/nodes sending data to Instana. All the Apache Httpd entities are shown with identical process name - 2.4.12(with additional fixes) @<process-id>*:port. There is no easy way to figure ...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Monitoring NGINX on Windows host

I've noticed that the monitoring of NGINX on Windows hosts is currently unavailable. Therefore, for clients using NGINX on Windows, this becomes a vital factor to take into account.
11 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Planned for future release

Automated fallback from IBM-hosted monitoring locations

When IBM offers hosted/maintained synthetic monitoring locations. it might be helpful to provide automated fallback or automated verification of failed tests. For example, if a test fails from a monitor in a Virginia datacenter, retest from New Yo...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Optionally test links as well as page components

Testing a page and the CSS, JS and images that make it up ensures the page is "complete" and works well for transactional websites. For content heavy websites, it's often helpful to also test the pages linked to from the test page. That is especia...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Future consideration

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