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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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Need additional statuses of Queue Manager

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue Manager statuses to monitor: "UNKNOWN" "REPOSITORY_ANAVAILABLE""QUIESCE""SUSPENDED""NOT_RESPONDING" These statuses our customer monitors with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add more options for "start" time for Release Markers API.

Using Cloud Pak for Integration, our CI/CD Pipeline uses ArgoCD and Argo Notifications. Argo Notifications does not support UNIX timestamp in milliseconds. Only seconds or microseconds. It would be very helpful if for example the Releases API coul...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Under Infrastructure the IBM ACE Message Flow view shows the Flow Nodes associated with the Messageflow and has a single Maximum Elapsed Time for each node; we would also like an Average Elapsed Time for each Flow node as well.

As stated above, displaying the Average Elapsed Time for each message flow node for the selected timeframe would provide a great deal of value when using Instana to track Message Flow performance. As a 2nd ask, and of lesser priority, would it als...
over 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana Support for z/VSE Operating System

This is a request for IBM to support running Instana the mainframe z/VSE operating system similar to the way it is currently supported on z/OS operating system (with Instana Gateway, CDP Streaming, spans, etc.). It would be useful to the many IBM ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Improvements to Infrastructure & Platforms charts in custom dashboard

I set the following conditions for any user. * For the group to which the user belongs, set host A in Infrastructure DFQ in Areas of Groups settings * In the widgets of Dashboard X published to this user, I selected Infrastructure & Platforms ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 5 Future consideration

Need to monitor IIB(IBM Integration Bus) Message flow event details in Instana with payload in decoded state

Need to monitor IIB(IBM Integration Bus) Message flow event details in Instana with payload in decoded state Instana Zendesk Ticket support for more details - Request #32621
over 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Plug-In or patch updates in ACE toolkits to enable better viewing such as expand capability of ESQL conditions

- Similar to Java compute node, where one can expand the code at function level; compute node must be equipped with similar capabilities to view the code in a better manner. - Users (developers) must be able to expand and minimize the code at proc...
over 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Seperation of batch trace with large call volume into multiple traces

Currently you cannot separate/split the number of traces as the default criteria cannot be changed.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Host-Agnostic Custom Events on StatsD Metrics

Having Application-specific StatsD metrics sent to Instana is helpful when creating custom dashboards, where we can monitor the change in metrics regardless of which host is sending them. However the custom events are tied to a specific host which...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Provide trace duration in API response

Current API trace endpoint https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTrace does not return the overall duration of the given trace. The Instana UI however does show the overall duration of each trace. Would love to see that attribute also be...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration