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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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Instana cannot capture the IMS JDBC

Instana cannot capture the IMS JDBC calls by default if application uses this jar file.IMS uses two APIs for accessing the IMS data; the first one is JDBC 4.0 spec, and the second is the DL/I API. The IMS team confirms that JDBC implementation is ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Delivered

DB2 Log_space percentage monitoring.

In this use case the customer Julie Yates wants to monitor log_space from her DB2 servers based on percentage. Since her team has multiple DB2 servers and the log_space may differ from one database to another, the ideal monitoring for this metric ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Delivered

Set weekly maintenance window

currently i am only able to set a maintenance window from one date to another for example. 10.03 8:00 to 10.03 9:00 i would like to have the possibility to add a maintenance window every tuesday from 8:00 to 9:00 or another time. I did not find a ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered

Improve Redisson support for Java apps

Improve Redisson support for Java apps. By Github stars, Redisson is the most popular redis client for Java apps (amongst others like Lettuce and Jedis). However, Instana stopped supporting Redisson some time ago: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/insta...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Support for Spring Cloud Starter Stream Solace 3.1.0

Support for Spring Cloud Starter Stream Solace 3.1.0 https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.solace.spring.cloud/spring-cloud-starter-stream-solace/3.1.0 Spring Cloud Stream Solace is also heavily used in sever projects and sadly it doesn't seem to...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Delivered

Add visibility into/present RFH2 (MQ/ACE) header elements in call analysis

RFH2 can contain arbitrary information in the form of xml element, which may be of interest to track/find specific messages (calls) based on whatever the client choose to put in the RFH2 header. This could give us an even greater advantage when sp...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 1 Delivered

PowerVC sensor

Instana already has the Openstack sensor. Although it can help to discover and observe part of PowerVC, the diagnostics of the PowerVC compute instances are missing and cannot be monitored. Also the pHMC sensor does not cover the same functionalit...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Delivered

Permissions - Configuration of Events, Alerts, Smart Alerts

We would like to prevent the user from deleting or disabling custom made Events, Alerts, Alert Channels made by other users and allow user to make their own.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert 1 Delivered

Couchbase DB support (couchbase client lib) for Nodejs APPs

It is a big disappointment that Nodejs Apps are not monitored for couchbase DB connections. Same is available for .NetCore . Can we please work on this. I am pretty sure it may not be big change , for us it is a blocker to product we are using cou...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Node 5 Delivered

Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x

According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered