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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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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
3 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 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...
2 days ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted

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

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

Add CSP Report Endpoint

In order to maintain and improve the quality of the Content-Security-Policy we currently need to offer a self hosted solution for the CSP-Reports* To not have to implement a endpoint on ourself, where to send CSP Reports, an Endpoint provided by I...
1 day ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted

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...
2 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Get uptime report from Applications on Instana

We have configured Instana to monitor our applications and we would like to report on performance of the application i.e. CPU utilization memory, Disk IO and the overal uptime for the application, how can we get such a report from Instana or the A...
3 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

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...
7 days ago in Instana / MQ 1 Submitted

PromQL capable Grafana Datasource plugin

Overhaul and/or extend the Grafana Plugin, or create a completely new Datasource to provide Instana metrics which can be consumed via PromQL.
3 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Enabling the option of ordering SLOs by status

We would like to have the option to order SLOs by status AND/OR having the change to filter those which have their budget exhausted. This feature at the Service Levels panel would make the tools more user-friendly, in my opinion.
6 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists