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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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IsBank wants Instana to support Oracle ODP (Oracle.DataAccess.Client) library version 4.122.x and above. Current support is 4.121.

We are experiencing some problems in monitoring the card system side, one of our most critical systems, on Instana. While the Oracle ODP (Oracle.DataAccess.Client) library version on the relevant servers is 4.122.1, Instana supports 4.121.2 and be...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

APM ISM performance issue

When an APM ISM agent (on the Linux platform) has a large number of active profile elements (200, 300. etc.), after restarting the ISM agent, profile deployment, or any change of profile elements, the ISM agent takes a long time (2-3 hours) to con...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

Monitoring Tibco BW - metrics

Hi, Based on Request #24197 and Request #24185 Tibco BW (https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-businessworks) is not supported by Instana. We have all our business logic there and right now we do not have any way to monitor or trace it. Business wo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 4 Delivered

Logs of span rate limiting should be write in INFO level in agent.log to detect it worked.

Instana manual explains as following; > If you see logs like Suppressed spans due to high number of short or Discarded span due to queue overflow in the agent log, it means that the Java tracer experienced heavy load on span processing. The des...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 2 Delivered

Turbonomic discovery of Tags for a group of Azure subscription

When creating a group with filter applied, for RG (resource group) group & VM group, Tag filter is available, but no for creating a group for account. We can see tag details shown in the Related Tag Information widget for resource group and V...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Delivered

Kong - Add support for missing metrics for admin token based authentication

According to the url - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-kong-api-gateway-open-beta#viewing-metrics the below metrics should be supported. We have observed that the below panels are not capturi...
12 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Delivered

Windows Service status

It would be great if we could see and alert on the status of Windows Services, Running, Stopped, Started etc. The current "Services" section in the configuration file is really just process monitoring. We need a clear distinction between the two.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Delivered

IBM Cloud Logs integration support

IBM Cloud Logs integration support (ingress and service management) https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/logs-service-apihttps://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-send-logs-api
3 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 3 Delivered

Support for dark theme for RNA user interface

Support for dark theme for RNA user interface, allows it to follow standard UI practices.
3 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Delivered

ASM Jobs that hit the max_capacity of 10 should pend and then retry, rather than go to Failed. (On prem version and possibly cloud version too)

We have a lot of VMWare observer jobs on ASM 1.1.16 on prem that occasionally hit the max_capacity value set to 10. The jobs go into a Failed state and never restart unless manually restarted. ASM should have a Pending or Waiting state and retry t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered