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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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If Number of Jobs in Queue is >= threshold then the alert should be triggered.

We have configured some of the jobs visible in Smart alert but still many other jobs are not visible in smart alerts to enable this monitoring parameter. The support team has identified reason behind and it is that only Top 20 Jobs would be visibl...
3 days ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Needs more information

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
13 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Needs more information

Ability to download Instana agents in Air-gapped Self hosted Standard Edition (K3S)

As of v287, the agent download fails in the self-hosted air-gapped standard edition. The only way is to go to internet and pull the latest agents for Instana agent repository OR mirror the repository to local environment. Given the access restrict...
22 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Needs more information

Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
26 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Need integration with BMC Remedy

Dear colleagues, customer is asking for integration with service desk BMC Remedy, it REST API, but Generic Webhook format doesn't fit the Remedy API. Here is the example for creating incident: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/itsm2002/example-of-using-th...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Needs more information

Single Unified Dashboard and Management for Multiple customers

for MSP like us, it is important to have a single dashboard and management pane of Instana for ease of administration, unlike today where each customer has a different URL and support engineers end up logging into different URL for supporting client.
3 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Needs more information

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.
3 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Needs more information

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Needs more information

Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Needs more information

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Needs more information