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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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tracing for work manager and data source of WebLgic

We want to trace the following WebLogic metrics: - as for work manager, execution thread count and queue retention count - as for data source, connection count and connection wait count
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana Health / Issue State queryable via API or Grafana Metrics

Introduction:-------------We have several Teams, which use internal Dashboard-Tools, which query multiple data sources (new-relic, check_mk, Prometheus, Splunk, etc., Openshift).These Tools make use of Health checks and Meta Informations.While mig...
over 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Get Application Infrastructure for multiple applications at once

We're trying to collect all the application infrastructure as returned by /api/infrastructure-monitoring/topology/filtered-topology. When there are many, it can imply a significant back and forth, with many request/response. It would be beneficial...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Basic filtering in /api/infrastructure-monitoring/topology

Currently we're using /api/infrastructure-monitoring/topology to retrieve the list of a subset of the infrastructure snapshots and their relations. The problem is that this endpoints returns everything, and therefore produces massive responses fro...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Need to update the date related field values into SharePoint

For more details, please find the related support case number TS015931077.
about 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 3 Not under consideration

Need to do custom filters (Condition) to retrieve the data from SharePoint.

For more details, please find the related support case number TS015931307.
about 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 2 Not under consideration

Improve i-Series agent performance

Using Instana to monitor IBM i-Series system is not being to successful due to the agent being to heavy on the CPU usage of the i-Series. We need an improvement on the performance of the agent, which currently is to heavy and clients are not willi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Is a defect

For instana to support monitoring of Solace

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add notes in application logs after instrumentation on how to disable auto-instrumentation for the application

When we instrument the containerised application, and some errors prevent it from starting, customers complain that instrumentation breaks the application. Some of them uninstall autotrace-webhook, some disable Autotrace Webhook, some add a namesp...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration