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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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Instana monitoring is taking 10-15 mins to refresh time to capture the data from the server, instant monitoring is required.

Instana monitoring is taking 10-15 mins to refresh time to capture the data from the server, instant monitoring is required. This is causing delay in detection of message wait, subsystem and other alerts which depends on Instana backend console re...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

API Support for "Configure Endpoint Mapping"

We would like to request the addition of a public API to support automation of "Configure Endpoint Mapping" for services within Instana. Currently, this functionality is only available via the UI, making it difficult to configure multiple endpoint...
14 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Add Instana to RedHat ODF sizer

Dear colleagues, please consider adding Instana to RedHat ODF sizer: https://sizer.ocs.ninja/ Thank you
15 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Enable Disk Filesystem Attributes (Filesystem Name, Used Space, Available Space) in Custom Payloads

Description: We would like to request the ability to include detailed disk filesystem attributes in the custom payload of alerts — particularly when sending alerts via webhook for disk usage thresholds. Currently, when we configure a custom alert ...
15 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Show timevalue in single stat sparklines mouseover in Instana

In standard instana dashboards there are single stats sparklines. Hovering with mouse over these sparlines gives the value. It would be awesome to show also the datetime to shown value.Our UC is use e.g. standard home dashboard to see affects over...
15 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Make results for service not in use in selected timerframe visible in analytic/API

We noted that the Applications dashboard in Instana displays the metrics (calls, latency, etc.) for each service, including those with no calls, regardless of the time window. However, when querying services in Analytics in Instana, services that ...
15 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Instana and MS teams notification

Notification integration with MS teams to be two ways for example allow taking action from MSteams
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0

Dashboards need to be easy to configure and add more applets

OOB dashboard configuration is not enough to handle or present all requirements need to add more applets and can be filtered based to certain text for example
about 1 month ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Submitted