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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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Include Custom TAGS to Events Rest WEB API

Support to tag creation on events API in order to create synthetic events based on contextual information, similar to trace tags. Widgets be capable of filter events based on tags sent by event API. Attached image describe a sample of event API us...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Windows .Net service getting discovered without adding package Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows

Windows .Net service should auto discovered in Instana once instana agent is installed in the host without any code instrumentation or without adding Nuget package this will help us to avoid new release.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Mutliple small Raw-Span PVCs instead of one large PVC

Answer: Use S3-comptabile object storage https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=openshift-api-reference#s3config for rawSpans to scale PVC limits We get the pvc from an external ceph cluster to openshift cluster. With 1000...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Not under consideration

Application Transaction Tracing for DataPower and MQ Appliances

This is idea is beneficial for all customers who employ DataPower and/or MQ appliances as part of their application infrastructure because it would enable them to gain a true 'end-to-end' view of their application flows. By enabling transactions t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Being able search Instana using the api name and then be able to drill down to related artifacts

When requests comes into Moneygram’s third-party API Gateway service, Moneygram would like the events to relay and show custom variables like the following three columns: “API”=“detailLookup”, RT (response time)=198ms, and service= https://ws.mone...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Documentation Upgrades

Recently went through installing an Instana Kubernetes cluster and we had significant issues due to the documentation. It is too vague, misleading, and the examples given are often confusing or incomplete. We got answers from support individuals t...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Not under consideration

Anomaly detection on issues

When an unusual amount of issues have occured (for an entity) it would be good to assure this boils up somehow. I.e. if CPU usage or memory exhaustion happens more frequently than usual (on a host) the user should be able to be informed pro-active...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Built in event to alert for Windows service not running

Currently, built in events only support for process monitoring. However certain Windows processes such as IIS workers run in the background during periods of inactivity and start backup once corresponding .NET application receives traffic. Alertin...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration