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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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Add the Ability to Create Alerts on Usage

Customer is using CRIO They are asking for the ability to create alerts on the following: Namespace: stg-cp4i-ace Pods: contains stg1* 1. CPU: 95% usage of cpu requests 2. Memory: 95% usage of the requests Checked with @Jayanth Putta and confirmed...
21 days ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Extend Instana Terraform Provider to Support RBAC with Teams & Roles

Instana is introducing Teams and Roles for RBAC, but the Terraform provider does not yet support managing these entities. For large organizations, managing RBAC as code is crucial for maintaining consistency, security, and quality control. Extendi...
26 days ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Delete/nullify result in synthetics

Hello, currently in Instana, we have the synthetics. They run and produce results. We, as users, don't have any possibles interaction regarding those results. We can't validate them, nullify them in case of false positive, delete them, acknowledge...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Mean on each call for the synthetics

Hello, today when we create a synthetic, we can view in the result tab the informations about each call and subcall. My idea would be to create a new tab on the synthetic view that compile a mean for each value of each calls on all the synthetic r...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Adaptive smart alert show preview based on threshold 'corridors'

As users we found it difficult to understand the threshold preview for adaptive smart alerts shows as one line metric. We would favour threshold shown as range above und below the actual metric line which would show the user the corridor of normal...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Monitoring Oracle Fussion

Oracle Fusion is a platform for enterprise applications in the cloud that includes tools for business management, the customer makes use of Oracle Fusion Middleware for the development of its core business applications and therefore it is key to b...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

We have requirement to monitor the alerts for AS400 message queue based below scenarios: 1. If the message type is (DIAGNOSTIC/INQUIRY/INFORMATIONAL, etc.) and the severity is (>=, <=, or =).2. If the message type is (DIAGNOSTIC/INQUIRY/INFO...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Able to query the Instana Events in Grafana

Hi team, There has been a need to have Instana Events in Grafana, the same way as we do right now in the Custom Dashboards, basically, be able to query Critical/Warning and present them in a Grafana widget. Thank you.
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration