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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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Allow fields customisation on Events dashboard for sorting

Dear colleagues, our customer is actively using Events dashboard and would like to be able to sort events by severity of the events in a list. Please consider implementing the feature of customising fields and sorting by them. Thank you
30 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Frequent TCP failure Error

The Frequent TCP fails built-in event checks whether the host has an unusual high number of TCP fails. The event inputs are: Metric - Network > Fail Metric - Network > Open/s Request - We need more details to understand the error and then on...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Include a combobox on AP, Service and Endpoint panel to move to another App, Service o Endpoint easily

Why ?: because returning to the list of Apps, Services or Endpoints is annoying Whose benefit ?: All users of Instana. Should work as a simple combobox with the links.
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Avoid filtering hosts by current availability on Infrastructure Map

Dear colleagues, we have different approaches, for different dashboards. I mean if we switch to application perspective dependency diagram, customer can see transactions and number of calls for past 24 hours even if a server that processed the cal...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Request to support monitoring of A10 Hardware Load balancer. (Product Type: ADC, Model: TH1040S version 5.2.1-P6, Build 74)

Request to support monitoring of A10 Hardware Load balancerProduct Type: ADC, Model: TH1040S version 5.2.1-P6, Build 74 Attached the screen short of the load balancer with version details.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Support Java Profiling on zLinux/LinuxONE platform

When using Instana for application performance monitoring and tuning, profiling is a useful feature to tune Java applications, currently Java profiling is only supported on x86 platform.
2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Session Duration Tracking in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide a way to determine the duration of a user session, either via the UI or API. This feature request proposes adding functionality to track and retrieve session duration, including the total time a user spends logg...
3 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Support tracing of RMI calls in the same JVM.

Our information system rely a lot of on RMI calls between components ( EJB). To optmize those calls we have deployed multiple components in the same JVM. When a component A calls component B in the same JVM, INSTANA does not trace the call to B co...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

IBM Instana is not supporting to capture the data from ACE version 13.

as my project requirement, we configured the ACE version 13 in Instana, unfortunately we are not able to see any data in Instana UI and we got confirmation with IBM support team on this as well. for more details, please look in this this ticket Ca...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted