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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?

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Oracle Tuxedo Domain Dashboard - Update what the 'Messages' Reflects

Under the prebuilt Oracle Tuxedo Domain dashboard that shows Machines, click the link to get to a dashboard view of that machine. On this dashboard page, there is a Queues section. Today, there is a column that shows 'Messages' in the table that r...
9 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 2 Future consideration

The customer needs to have Cloudera metrics

We think could be better to have Cloudera monitoting in the "Platform" section because Cloudera links a lot of other infrastructure metrics below.
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Ability to track Page Transitions & Geography details with automatic instrumentation

Automatic instrumentation provides an easy way to monitor websites with no extra configuration needed on the application/website pages. However, with this approach we are unable to track page transitions and geography details. It would be helpful ...
9 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Monitoring WAS in AS400/Iseries

I currently have more than 100 Websphere application servers in as400 and with instanta I cannot monitor them, so I request your help so that they have this need and the collector is created, as well as tivoli monitoring, apm, Icam
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

publish Agent release notes with every Agent release

Currently some agents are pinned to a specific version, whilst other dynamic agents auto update. We control which versions are deployed where this way to ensure problems that occurred in the past do not reoccur. Updating pinned agents currently is...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Remote monitoring PostgreSQL

With switching to a new hosting provider we won't be able to install Instana agent locally to PostgreSQL-servers anymore. To have end-to-end visibility, please provide a means to configure the Instana agent to monitor PostgreSQL clusters running o...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Instana openAPI should also provide Annotation Results for a POD/Deployment

When doing a call via the Instana open API, the current Snapshots are just containing the LABELS but no ANNOTATION. It would be really good also to see ANNOTATIONS as they also contain important data.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Allow "patch" method to HTTP actions

When I try to create an HTTP action in Instana Automation feature, I can see the most common HTTP actions such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, but some APIs require the PATCH method, which represents a partial update https://developer.mozilla.org/en...
5 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

Set the remote monitoring interval for Oracle database

In TS015830047, IBM Support Services responded that the expected behavior for remote monitoring of Oracle DB is that if the connection fails, it will only be retried after a 10 minute interval. It's a long time to be unable to monitor for 10 minut...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration