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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?
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Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
19 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
16 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
25 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Submitted

Extend LDAP sensor capability to monitor IBM Security Directory Server 6.4

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Directory Server 6.4
25 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Submitted

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Go 0 Submitted

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
about 2 months ago in Instana 0 Submitted

Include .Zip format in Datalink File import and export connections

Datalink Classic used to allow files provided in '.zip' format to be imported and exported from Apptio Cost Transparency. This file format has been dropped in Datalink. This is a blocker for us to migrate from datalink classic to Datalink as our u...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Instana SaaS must support Dual(Multiple) SSO in the same tenant as Dynatrace is supporting now.

My customer is using Dynatrace that supports Dual SSO, so they are using SAML via Okta for SSO of regular employees and Azure SaaS AD for SSO of partner employees both are having different email domains.However, I got answered from IBM Support tha...
1 day ago in Instana / Observability of AI 0 Submitted

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