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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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Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
4 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
6 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
21 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
17 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Custom endpoint levels

Today can you do custom endpoints URL using the "Configure Endpoint Extraction". It would be great if you could do custom endpoints URL with levels. For example if you do a custom endpoint for a specific URL then when you click on it in Analytics ...
17 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
27 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Submitted

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
22 days ago in Instana 1 Submitted

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
12 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
24 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted