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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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Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Adding additional filter to Analytics Infrastructure view

We have two cassandra clusters with the same name (apm_cassandra) but in different openshift clusters. Because the cluster name is the same, I'm unable to filter out the specific one I'm interested in under Analyze Infrastructure -> Cassandra C...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

instana enterprise operator

With the latest kubectl-intana Instana enterprise operator starting from version 1.0.0 onward, the tools with option 'version image-list' couldn't provide component info in an airgap environment or an environment without cluster connection. 1. The...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Allow the Instana agent to monitor CP4BA

Creating this idea but we also have created a case b/c we do not know if this is a defect or enhancement req. Problem Description:Currently, Instana cannot monitor CP4BA. CP4BA has made their container image filesystems readonly and the Instana ag...
20 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review