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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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NFS share observability metrics

The customer is currently utilizing NFS shares for diverse applications, including the active-passive availability of their IT systems. They have expressed an interest in integrating the Instana observability platform to monitor their NFS shares e...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Add the tenant unit names in the short URLs

Currently, the short URL contains the base URL for all tenant units in the customer’s environment. The customer would like to configure different short URLs for different tenant units. Thanks.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Alerting based on content of logs

Some erroneous calls might be considered OK based on the logs of that call, so with the new feature we should be able to alert only when specific logs appear and also exclude some logs from generating an alert. This way the client could reduce the...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 0 Planned for future release

Display deployment markers in Event views

Smart Alerts with adaptive thresholds is a nice feature to detect anomalies. Very often these anomalies are triggered by a change in the system (for example a deployment). Many graphs in Instana display the deployment markers for this reason, but ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Instana: Ability to disable a micrometer metric (EhCache metric has known performance/out of memory issues)

Currently in Instana you have the ability to either enable or disable the entire micrometer collection.You don't have the ability to disable one or some of its metrics. The EhCache metric has known performance/out of memory issues when dealing wit...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Trigger alerts depending on several events linked with an AND

We currently use offline events in a static JBoss environment to trigger an incident at the control centre. Unfortunately, agent updates, for example, lead to the agents being switched offline in extreme cases. It would be very helpful if offline ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Alert 3 Is a defect

Provide enhancements for Splunk Integration

It’s nice to see we can navigate to Splunk directly from Instana however I still see some enhancements can be made like below, Support of custom names for field names for PODs E.g: As per Instana the POD name key will be kubernetes.pod_name howeve...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Configure Event - Condition

When seeting up Event, when usinn two or more Conditions, we would like have option OR, and under Condition section for Operator, we would like have option "is not", "does not contains"
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Instana: Built-in "System memory exhausted" Alert needs to take active/inactive memory into consideration

The existing built-in "System memory exhausted" Alert in Instana is unusable and I will be using Turbonomic instead. The below SuSE Linux URL supports this stand as well. SuSE Support: Memory management best practices URL: https://www.suse.com/sup...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Parse json formatted logs to generate fields and extract log level

We're writing lot's of logs in json format as this is very helpful with other log management solutions (Graylog2, Datadog) to parse these logs into fields and have very searchable data. This would be necessary for us to further use Instana Log ana...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration