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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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Enable Redis monitoring with certificates for Instana

Instana's current monitoring config the Redis instance does not use credentials to ensure monitor & retrieve data security, which means it does not support certificates. The lack of certificates support may become a shortcoming in future secur...
2 days ago in Instana / Automation 3 Submitted

Instana's capability to ingest storage speed metrics from IBM i's host

Summary: Why is it useful? This will help clients to quickly detect and identify when something is wrong with their IBM i system especially when it has something to do with storage (read and write speed, causing slowness) Who would benefit from it...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
1 day ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Documentation of backend health KPI

As on-prem customer we need an up-to version documentation on health check KPIs(as it confirmed existing for instanas SAAS envs)enabling us to enterprise level monitor Instana application
1 day ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Missing self monitoring from documentation for every release

As we are self hosting our instana backend we need to know what metrics etc we need to look for to make sure the instana backend is running correctly. As of now we have to guess what metric we have to check.
1 day ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
2 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

With Infra Smart Alerts provide a way to prevent auto closure

Problem/use-case: We have a subset of alerts that are triggered based on problems that happen in an instant (1-shot) where the events are in good right away. Such Issues are for example triggered by a metric which only shows a short spike. Consequ...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted