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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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EUM Crash Reporting - programmatic creation of crash report configuration via Instana API

We need a way to programatically e.g. by calling the Instana api setup a new crash report configuration.We were told that instana api does not currently support this function
about 13 hours ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
13 days ago in Instana / Agent 3 Submitted

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
about 16 hours ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
about 17 hours ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Want to be able to configured an availabilityZone for all queue managers on a server

Customers are looking for an easy way to setup Availability Zones for their IBM MQ Queue Managers. The environment is setup with RDQM. Therefore, they want to see the Queue Managers independently from the Host Agent. And, they want to put all of t...
1 day ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Add an option to change the severity of a built-in events

We need an option to change the severity of a built-in event as per the requirement from the customer. As of now it's fixed, therefore Priority events are getting missed because those are set as warning. For example, message queue, Top active jobs...
1 day ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Instana OpenTelemetry Correlation for Pure OTel Scenarios

We have a pure OpenTelemetry setup where the OtelCollector directly exports data to the Instana SaaS backend, without any Instana Agent in between. Currently, entity correlation across layers like ApplicationPerspective > Service > Endpoint ...
2 days ago in Instana / Integrations 1

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
19 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

Please add seconds parameter in the input dates field for UI time range section

In general, logs are generated at a nanosecond level. However, in Instana, the current filtering and time range adjustment options are limited to a minimum of one minute. While this granularity may suffice for some use cases, it becomes insufficie...
22 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

AWS Fargate Agent for Nuxt.js Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports the following Fargate Collectors: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargateWe would be happy if you could add support for Nuxt.js as well.
5 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted