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Backend Enablement

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Custom Dashboard Trafficlight widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure 6

Dashboard threshold - marked out/backlighted

In Big Number widget add a field, that will include threshold. When threshold will be reached widget should be marked out/backlighted.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

API - Kubernetes Pod Memory/CPU Usage

The catalog API call for kubernetes pod metrics (/api/infrastructure-monitoring/catalog/metrics/kubernetesPod) got me the following output: "metricId":"cpuRequests" "metricId":"memoryLimits" "metricId":"container_count" "metricId":"memoryRe...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Future consideration

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
18 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Variable Capabilitiy for Instana's Grafana Plugin

The Instana plugin for Grafana needs support for variables to be used in dashboards and queries. Without this, a Grafana dashboard that displays Instana data must use hard coded server names in the queries. Thus, to show the same graph for a diffe...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable.
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Extend backend APIs to export/import gracefully all possible configurations rather than just a few

As an AIOPs practictioner I would want to see the API's (only APIs not the UI) behind config-migration feature be extended to support the migration of all possible Insatna configurations. Currently, it is only limited to Applications, Websites, Mo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent / Alert / API-C / Backend Enablement / Extend Capabilities / Integrations / Self Hosted / SRE 3 Not under consideration