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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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Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
6 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 6 Needs more information

Add tracing support for Borland Delphi

Ability to trace Borland Delphi client calls to SQL Server, perhaps an intermediate component that discovers transactions without the need to modify the application.
14 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
14 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
27 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
28 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 3 Future consideration

COPA OA: Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. 

Dashboard templates Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. The standard out-of-box dashboards show a dump of all metrics. Curated dashboard templates for use cases that can be activ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Under review

COPA OA: Flexible dashboarding for metric correlation needed

Need ability to study correlated metrics. For example, how is the CPU and disk usage behaving with user load? How is garbage collection affecting response times? Comparison of different metrics on the fly is available in ITCAM that is not availabl...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Under review

COPA OA: Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.

Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.Need the capability to generate thread dumps to view the current thread activity. This is useful for long running wor...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Submitted

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Future consideration