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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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ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
10 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Allow more flexibility on alert messages

We would like to customize the subject of email alerts sent, so that the users can at a glance determine what is going wrong. This could be done by adding an option for a custom title in the Alert parameters.
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Let the license expiration notice be seen only by admins

Each year, as the license renewing period approaches, our users are worried about the notice "Licence expires in xx days". We would like this reminder to be seen only by the Instana administrators, to avoid unnecessary worries on the users' side.
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Bug reports are not publicly available and it is not possible to determine if the trouble that is occurring is known.

Bug reports are not publicly available and it is not possible to determine if the trouble that is occurring is known. Some fixed bugs are listed in the release notes and github update comments, but unfixed and in-progress bugs are only shared with...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Add information for K8s/OCPs to the release notes in the Instana documentation

We are very pleased to see the release notes for Instana Agent/Sensor/Tracer being added.However, users of Instana with K8s/OCPs should also gather the following information. These can currently only be obtained from the individual githubs. YAML h...
about 11 hours ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
about 23 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
2 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
6 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Custom endpoint levels

Today can you do custom endpoints URL using the "Configure Endpoint Extraction". It would be great if you could do custom endpoints URL with levels. For example if you do a custom endpoint for a specific URL then when you click on it in Analytics ...
6 days ago in Instana / Common 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.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Under review