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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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Monitoring Active Transactions running at threads in Pods on Kubernetes called as "X-Active" is required.

There are dominent competitors against Instana in Korea Market.All of them are providing the feature called as "X-Active" that monitors active transactions running in pods on Kubernetes whether or not their state are normal or pending and provides...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 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.
about 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" ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

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?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Application Perspective: Sorting by infrastructure

Currently it is not possible to sort the table in infrastructure-tab of services and APs by the first column
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

[Copy] Ability to aggregate the async latency number collected from traces

We would like to be able to aggregate the async latency number that already exists in the UI for traces. Ideally we would want to create alerts on outlying numbers.  This would be very useful to understand whether full user journeys have degr...
14 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Instana more flexible and agile with flexible the installation ports

Customers from Banking using McAfee antivirus which can block Instana-Backend and Instana-Backend cannot installed. The issues are McAfee using port 8081 which is same with Instana-Backend using port 8081 too.So, the ideas are Can the Instana-Back...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration

Improving Event Mechanism

1) When an event occurs, customer wants to see the detailed information about how the event occurred among the details. For example, an event related to disk capacity occurs above 50%, but they don't know if it occurred at 70% or 80%. 2) Customer ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

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