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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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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...
over 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...
over 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)...
over 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...
over 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
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Add tags on every level of the landscape

Please add the ability to apply tags on every level, not just on hosts. So i.e. tag a Tomcat with a specific label or tag a java process as per desire.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Dependency map service locations

The map build up by Instana seems to shuffle the services around at random. Meaning if you are analysing the map and either it refreshes or you reload the page, the service can be somewhere else. This is confusing for users
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Time slicer

In some situations it is more practical to have a time slicer. The purpose here is to fix the relative time (i.e. a week) but move the slicer over a timeframe to look at data from a week with various start dates.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Offline events for critical infra components

The current Instana alerting isn't picking up when a critical infra component is off the map. I.e. a system that was previously receiving a large amount of calls suddenly is gone (i.e. a database back-end). REWE suggest that Instana should "know" ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration