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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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Instana vulnerability reporting: Need a standard way of versioning the each technology monitored by Instana

I built a custom toolkit that provides a catalog of vulnerabilities found for the technologies monitored by Instana sensors. The source code is placed on GHE [here](https://github.ibm.com/AIOps-Elite-Team/instana-vulnerability-reporter). However, ...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Report offset lag for kafka consumers

I created a library/custom utility that monitors the kafka consumers and records the offset lags across our event driven architecture. It is further integrated with LogDNA and slack which helps to send alerts to the squads for any offset lags in a...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to operate with timestamps to create thresholds

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss timestamps in threshold functionality. Our customer uses them with Tivoli Monitoring and they're interested in implementation of the same functionality in Instana. Below, there are the 3 examples of such ITM sit...
12 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Dashboards not embeddable in an iframe due to CORS Restrictions

Dear Instana support team, while migrating from New Relic to Instana, some of the SBB Teams are trying to integrate their current Dashboards with the Instana Dashboards.One of the problems which occurred today is that we are not able to integrate ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Customer is requesting a mobile application that supports push alert notifications

Customer is requesting a mobile application for Instana that supports push alert notifications. The customer has outsourced support for hardware and OS support, a mobile application would let users simply enable push notifications instead of manag...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Instana Event REST-API -> Add filter options for GET /events

Use-Case:----------The Client wants to get all active Events for a Team in his company to define a team's Environment/Services status.This status of all Events should be aggregated to one Status (if one has an error, Status is in error, else good)...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Planned for future release

Charge Back Sub-units/Teams and monitor/govern their License usage

As a Customer, who provides Instana as a service inside an organisation - I would like to have the capability to see which Application Team (via Agent Key or Application Perspective etc.) has used how many APM/IQM Licenses. In order for me to gove...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Extend backend APIs to export/import gracefully all possible configurations rather than just a few

As an AIOPs practictioner I would want to see the API's (only APIs not the UI) behind config-migration feature be extended to support the migration of all possible Insatna configurations. Currently, it is only limited to Applications, Websites, Mo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent / Alert / API-C / Backend Enablement / Extend Capabilities / Integrations / Self Hosted / SRE 3 Not under consideration

Warning and Critical are two rules -> Must be correlatable

Warning and Critical are two rules -> Must be correlatable
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration