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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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Add option for aggregation function (avg, max) for custom metrics

Hello, Can you please add an option to chose aggregation function when displaying custom metrics? In attached example you can see that metrics are collected every 1 second but when you choose larger time interval then instana automatically aggrega...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Under review

Instana IBM DataPower monitoring to be able to monitor the certificates being monitored on IBM DataPower

We would like to get events on certificate expiry within the certificates that are being monitored within IBM DataPower. When the certificates are about to expire.
3 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Under review

Custom dashboard - last value

Through Prometheus, we are gathering in Instana a gauge metric that shows if an instance is active (1) or inactive (0). We'd like to show this value in a custom dashboard using a 'Big number widget' or a 'Top list widget'. It would be great if we ...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Continuous display of Cassandra Nodes data after Cassandra restart

We notice that when viewing the cassandra node where the underlying pod has been restarted, it doesn't display the data continuously even though the node is the same (i.e. same name). If I select the time before restart, I cannot adjust the time t...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Environment label

Hi, We use different Instana backends in our organisation. Each Instana backend is responsible for an environment (DEV/ACC/PRD). It would be nice that we can add an indication of the environment (a label for example) in the top banner of Instana. ...
4 months ago in Instana / Common 2 Under review

Change the Instana Logo on the Homepage and Login Page

Our customer would like to replace the IBM Instana logo on the homepage and login page with their own logo.
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Under review

No way to write thresholds against custom parameters configured via the "Configuration Based SDK"

If I use the Configuration Based SDK (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk), I can add custom information into the traces. That data can be visualized in the UI. But, there i...
7 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Instana needs to send notifications/alerts when active directory certificates expire in OpenShift on Z

Without this notification, it's a manual effort to keep checking for expired certificates
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Synthetic 1 Under review

Correlation Between AWS RDS and AWS Lambda Native Tracing

We propose an enhancement in Instana to improve the correlation between AWS RDS databases and services detected by AWS Lambda Native Tracing. Currently, we experience a lack of visibility and correlation between these components, which impacts our...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review