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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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Rename 'Current Transfers' to 'Current Active Transfers'

When file transfers are going on, and the Instana UI is in live mode, the 'Current Transfers' metric on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard always remains '0' (see the yellow highlight on the screen shot). On the other hand, the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Show status change history of MFT transfers

Our customer needs to track their MFT file transfers and they need to have insights in when file transfers change their status from Started to Progress and finally Successful or Failed. So we need some kind of table that lists all the status chang...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Able to query IBM MQ Tags from the API

I'm able to query IBM MQ calls using the V2 API for traces: https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTraceDownload And I get details about the message but not from the IBM MQ Tags. The only way I can get those tags is using the UI and click...
about 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 2 Planned for future release

mapping js errors for backend

Actually, the source mapping is done only on front end errors It could be intertesting to have this mapping available also on the stack traces for backend side, since we have transpilation process between javascript and typescript
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Node / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Needs to monitor swap/paging metrics for AIX hosts

We need to monitor and alert on swap/paging metrics for AIX and Windows hosts. After having configured events for these metrics, they triggered incorrectly for AIX and Windows and instana support confirmed with engineering that they only provide t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Application monitoring plugin for Informatica powercenter

We were looking to monitoring the informatica ETL application at the client using instana. Unfortunately, couldn't find any plugin related to Informatica Powercenter 10.2.0 Hotfix 2 or 10.4.1 in the configuration.yaml neither at https://www.ibm.co...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Supports HTTP Tracing for ppc64le little-endian architecture

Important finance company in Peru, is about to acquire Instana and needs to monitor with Instana agents the trace of its web servers. This is possible but the architecture is not supported.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Application Batch process Monitoring

Instana Application monitoring services are not reporting the data statistics as expected. Basically the service in question is a database one which is running on DB2 db. Whenever a batch execution happens there's a bunch of calls being made by th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

Agent Monitoring AMQP status

Currently MQ sensor only support channel status and MQTT channel status, AMQP type is not supported yet. So you will see it in channel table, but channel status is not in the same table with common channels. MQ's output of dis chstatus(*) and dis ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

IIS Reset dependency for .net framework application

For the IIS hosted applications as per the Instana documentation it is required to perform IIS reset to properly instrument application. We want to eliminate the dependency to perform IIS reset.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration