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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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Trigger alert from offline event only if there was no restart after a configurable amount of time

Currently, if I create an alert based on an offline event, the alert will immediately be triggered when the entity goes offline. Often an entity is only restarted, so if an alert is generated that would be a false alert. Instead it should be possi...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

MSSQL - Implement correlation between service and infra entity

Instana agent is able to monitor MSSQL but its missing the correlation between the service and the underneath infrastructure.If we click on Application Icon -> Services -> Database name -> Infrastructure tab. We can see the amount of call...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Stastd Metric Group by tag

We were collecting Statsd Metrics in this format Metric + Tag name abacus.emailSent#template=account_activated , abacus.emailSent#template=cards_txs_nudge , We would like to have a time line series to group them by tag of each metric and aggregati...
about 3 years ago in Instana 4 Planned for future release

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if Transport has failed

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if Transport has failed
10 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Planned for future release

Oracle DB Sensor - Show Disk Used Percentage

Oracle DB Sensor - Show Disk Used Percentage
10 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Planned for future release

monitoring specific to kubeapiserver, kube-controll-manager and scheduler

Monitoring specific to kubeapiserver, kube-controll-manager and scheduler. PMR (TS016949061)
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Planned for future release

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

HANA DB Sensor - Generate Event for Archive Log Backup

Generate Event for Archive Log Backup
11 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

SAP ABAP Sensor - Display outbound ABAP Connections

Display outbound ABAP Connections
11 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

Need a "Hostname" field when using a Remote monitoring sensor

With many of the Instana sensors that do Remote Monitoring (MQ, MQ FTE, DB2, Oracle, etc.), there isn't a field that allows a customer to identify the hostname of the remotely monitored system. I'm working with a customer that it integrating Insta...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release