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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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Please make time based configuration timezone based

in e.g. SLO with daily interval when change to dst and back two times a year the timebucket is not in-line with the time the user see in the ui which is leading eg to daily SLO which was created 24h starting 12 am is after change to dst now starti...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Planned for future release

Export of Dashboard with all Widgets included as PDF

Currently the data is deleted after a defined periode of time. Export functionality would help to create a comprehensive, persistant snapshot of a specific situation to document the current state, e.g. in simulations of production incidents on tes...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Planned for future release

Missing endpoints for logs on Instana API Service Catalogue

we have internal client's looking for logs search by API endpoints and its a missing content into Intana service catalogue. Instana API docs
14 days ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
3 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Planned for future release

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Instana lose visiblity to POSTGRES DB (running on OCP) after the POSTGRES cluster restart, it resets to default settings

We are trying to monitor CP4AIOPS & CNEA/AMS on OCP. We follow the document (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-postgresql#enable-statistics-collection) to enable tracking so Instana can mon...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

If Number of Jobs in Queue is >= threshold then the alert should be triggered.

We have configured some of the jobs visible in Smart alert but still many other jobs are not visible in smart alerts to enable this monitoring parameter. The support team has identified reason behind and it is that only Top 20 Jobs would be visibl...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Planned for future release

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 5 Planned for future release

Web/App End User Monitoring: Custom Metrics: Enable Alerts Based on Actual Metric Values, Instead of Only Count of Custom Metrics

In our Website Monitoring using the INEUM SDK, custom metrics are recorded and correctly displayed on default dashboards. However, when configuring smart alerts, we are restricted to using only the count of custom metric events. We cannot create a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 2 Planned for future release