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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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save filter button in analytics page

In analytics page you can do filter on applications and all other metrics and stuff but you cant create saved filter for common search criteria or very complex queries.you should create a save button as in infrastructure page.
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Planned for future release

Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Synthetic 0 Under review

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
23 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Get uptime report from Applications on Instana

We have configured Instana to monitor our applications and we would like to report on performance of the application i.e. CPU utilization memory, Disk IO and the overal uptime for the application, how can we get such a report from Instana or the A...
23 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
4 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

ability to monitor .NET Core without compiling application with nuget

Almost every customer we meet both new and current uses a mix of .NET Framework and .NET Core applications. Our biggest concern is that almost all applications written for .Net Core is developed outside the customer and they have no control over t...
4 months ago in Instana / .NET 0

Kong monitoring with all the metrics!!

As on today, Kong is available for monitoring through instana, but with limited metrics on which we can put alerting. Below metrics are not available for alert metric to be setup as event. Since it is not completely available, we are not able to p...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories. Want capabilities that are similar to ITM v6. Customers use this capability to indicate whether their applications are performing properly. For example, if there are too many fi...
10 months ago in Instana / Common 1

PromQL capable Grafana Datasource plugin

Overhaul and/or extend the Grafana Plugin, or create a completely new Datasource to provide Instana metrics which can be consumed via PromQL.
24 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review