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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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PHP 8.X support for aarch64 based processors

2 customers with PHP are using the AWS Gravitron processors which are of aarch64 processor. We need PHP support for them.
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 2 Delivered

Alert on New Agent Registration at the SaaS Backend

The Customer needs to control the Instana Agent "one-liner installer" which is public information. In that sense, every user that has according permissions, can register a new agent against the Instana Backend. To avoid unwanted agent sprawl the c...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Alert 0 Delivered

Apache Kafka Clients 3.3.x not supported by Instana Java Sensor

One of our teams found out that a lot of framework support in the instana JVM sensor is outdated. Our teams using Kafka and Aws can not use instana at the moment for monitoring their services, since the traces with those frameworks:- Apache Kafka ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Spring Kafka >= 3.1 not supported by Instana Java Sensor

One of our teams found out that a lot of framework support in the instana JVM sensor is outdated. Our teams using Kafka and Aws can not use instana at the moment for monitoring their services, since the traces with those frameworks:-- Specially fo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

AWS SQS 2.1.x not supported by Instana Java Sensor

One of our teams found out that a lot of framework support in the instana JVM sensor is outdated. Our teams using Kafka and Aws can not use instana at the moment for monitoring their services, since the traces with those frameworks:- AWS SDK 2.xar...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Set weekly maintenance window

currently i am only able to set a maintenance window from one date to another for example. 10.03 8:00 to 10.03 9:00 i would like to have the possibility to add a maintenance window every tuesday from 8:00 to 9:00 or another time. I did not find a ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered

Support for Spring Cloud Starter Stream Solace 3.1.0

Support for Spring Cloud Starter Stream Solace 3.1.0 https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.solace.spring.cloud/spring-cloud-starter-stream-solace/3.1.0 Spring Cloud Stream Solace is also heavily used in sever projects and sadly it doesn't seem to...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java 1 Delivered

Add visibility into/present RFH2 (MQ/ACE) header elements in call analysis

RFH2 can contain arbitrary information in the form of xml element, which may be of interest to track/find specific messages (calls) based on whatever the client choose to put in the RFH2 header. This could give us an even greater advantage when sp...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ 1 Delivered

PowerVC sensor

Instana already has the Openstack sensor. Although it can help to discover and observe part of PowerVC, the diagnostics of the PowerVC compute instances are missing and cannot be monitored. Also the pHMC sensor does not cover the same functionalit...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Delivered

Event API: Fetch events related a single entity or a query

As an IT Ops engineer looking into specific entities in any 3rd party tools backed by Instana data, I would like to fetch / see all the existing issues and incidents of a specific entity. Currently, we have the API: https://instana.github.io/opena...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Delivered