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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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Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
10 months ago in Instana / Python 4 Planned for future release

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

Need ways to customize logo for emails Instana sends

Dear colleagues, our customer has asked if we allow to add a custom logo into Instana email notification, would be nice to have that feature for all of on-premises environments. Please consider adding the option Thank you
22 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Make Stack and Up-/Downstream information visible for AWS ActiveMQ Server

Fill Instana Active MQ Monitoring Dashboard Button 'Stack' and 'Upstream/Downstream' Buttons
22 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

Adding additional filter to Analytics Infrastructure view

We have two cassandra clusters with the same name (apm_cassandra) but in different openshift clusters. Because the cluster name is the same, I'm unable to filter out the specific one I'm interested in under Analyze Infrastructure -> Cassandra C...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Add dynamic value tags to alerts in non-global custom payloads

Hi, Can you please add ability to choose dynamic tag values for non-global custom payloads on alerts? Currently this is only available for global custom payload (see attached picture). Best regards,ldrascic
23 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted