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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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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...
3 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
3 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
24 days ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Under review

"Limited access" users should be able to use "Analyze Infrastructure"

When you want to set the permission of Infrastructure of a group with "limited access", you cannot set "Analyze Infrastructure" permission to ON. It means that "limited access" users cannot use "Analyze Infrastructure" features today. I assume tha...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 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...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Application perspectives 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
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Submitted

Webagent Limit reset - High Business Urgency

We logged an IBM case: TS017640803 for missing data on our website monitoring (EUM). We discovered 2 things that need attention and IBM requested that we load an aha-idea for resetting limits on the webagent. Currently, there is a limit on the pag...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

JMX Metric unit labeling is confusing at best

FROM TS017727981 We are using JMX metrics for datasources # Java & Custom JMX com.instana.plugin.java: jmx: - object_name: 'oracle.ucp.admin.UniversalConnectionPoolMBean:*' metrics: - attributes: 'borrowedConnectionsCount,availableConnectionsC...
5 days ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
10 days ago in Instana / MQ 1 Submitted