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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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Prior notice is required for releases with screen changes

If the release involves screen changes, Instana users must be notified, educated on user operation, and procedures must be changed. Please share the change information before the screen is actually changed. It is fine to simply have release notes ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Needs more information

To add custom time range in instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 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...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Support tracing of ICAP-calls (protocol technology support)

Hello,we have service application using ICAP protocol to send and receive data to be virus scanned.It would be awesome to see this calls in Instana
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 5 Needs more information

Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Needs more information

"N" Number of agents should be update at once.

If we are changing the mode Auto/On in the com.instana.agent.main.config.UpdateManager.cfg file. The agent will take automatic update. But, The mode should be OFF only, because as per SMBC standards, for any updates we should follow change request...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Needs more information

Ability to capture .Net based performance metrics

Ability to capture .Net based performance metrics
3 months ago in Instana / .NET 1 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.
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Needs more information

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
3 months ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Needs more information

Allow Token or userid password from IBM MQ to Instana agent

IBM MQ introduced telemtry as per doc : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.4?topic=operator-integrating-mq-instana-tracing It doe snot provide secure conection and authentication option when configuring on-prem or non ibm otel providers. Also, t...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Needs more information