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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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Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Custom Dashboards: Creating calculated values and then plotting them

In custom dashboards today, we can't seem to create a calculated value and then plot it as a single line. For example: 1) Go to dashboards and create a new time series widget. 2) Use data source: Infrastructure & Platforms 3) For metrics, u...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Under review

Instana supporting instrumentation of lambda functions using Terraform

As of now, Instana is not supporting AWS lambda functions using Terraform. Few teams in our agency using AWS lambda functions using Terraform and we need Instana instrumentation on these nodes.
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review