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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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Standard edition without need Subdomains

We need the possibility to run instana without the need of Subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing DNS Settings
11 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
26 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 0 Under review

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 1 month ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

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 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review

Google Cloud Service Mesh Support request

GKE provides Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE, which is google managed version of Istio. Now Instana already supports Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, but not Google Cloud Service Mesh yet. We used this Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE and reques...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

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 ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

About Azure MySQL Lock

Is it possible to collect Azure MySQL Lock-related metrics and set up events? Assuming no, is there a roadmap for the future?
about 1 month ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

When sending alerts from Instana to Opsgenie, please send them in plain text.

This is a customer feature request. Please review it. The related case is TS016826822. When Instana is introduced, the alert transmission structure is "Instana -> Opsgenie -> Slack". When sending a notification message from Instana to Opsgen...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 0 Under review

Duplication of EUM Auto Instrumentation

Currently EUM Auto Instrumentation does not check the preceding EUM javascript entry. In our topology, some requests go through the multiple proxy and EUM javascript is duplicated like bellow. Do we need to check the preceding entry? [root@itz-310...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Monitor disk IOPs on VMs

To get events on issues with disk IOPs on VMs
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review