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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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Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Request to display total number virtual logical processors in Instana dashboard when Windows Server 2019 has more than 64 cores assigned.

Windows 2019 Operating system's native applications such as Task Manager can manage and maintain to show more than 64 logical processors. Instana currently lacks ability to display total number of virtual processors assigned to Windows Server 2019...
23 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Displaying Incorrect Assigned Virtual Cores in Instana Dashboard for Windows Server 2019

Problem Statement: The Instana Dashboard does not display the full number of virtual cores assigned to Windows Server 2019 virtual machines due to a design limitation. This creates a discrepancy in monitoring data for Windows 2019 OS, which impact...
24 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Missing self monitoring from documentation for every release

As we are self hosting our instana backend we need to know what metrics etc we need to look for to make sure the instana backend is running correctly. As of now we have to guess what metric we have to check.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Grafana Instana Plugin dashboard features

We have integrated the Instana with Grafana for dashboarding and have observed that some of the below features are missing which will help in creating better dashboards for customers. 1) TopN - To show the top N Utilized nodes 2) Option to filter ...
24 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

slow calls detection

some of our teams are using mendix and we noticed that even thoug we can list the calls with different metrics we cant see how long the actual activity took unless we click on the calls one by one. we should be listing the calls by the activity ti...
25 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Service Configuration

Exclude URL’s Mute requests (Still monitor request but don’t alert
25 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Needs more information