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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?

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Port info should be in the framework dashboard

ISBANK wants to track Port info and it should be in the framework dashboard.This is not a supported framework, we cannot collect that information.This idea for a framework sensor to collect that to our Sensor Team.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

ISBANK want to see the consumers of any service or any queue

ISBANK want to see the consumers of any service or any queue especially on ibm mq
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 6 Not under consideration

ISBANK needs a call-based java profiling, together with time-based java profiling.

In Instana, we have Java profiling and stack trace for the calls but there is no direct correlation between them. I mean the customer needs a call-based java profiling, together with time-based java profiling.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

In services developed in Java architecture, even if a technology / framework is not supported, providing endpoint / host / ip / span information without giving too much detail.

In services developed in Java architecture, even if a technology / framework is not supported, providing endpoint / host / ip / span information without giving too much detail.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 8 Not under 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.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Customer is requesting a mobile application that supports push alert notifications

Customer is requesting a mobile application for Instana that supports push alert notifications. The customer has outsourced support for hardware and OS support, a mobile application would let users simply enable push notifications instead of manag...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Last Backup Sensor Option to monitor by hours.

This metric only offer to monitor the number of days since the last full backup was done, this is ok but if there were a possibility to monitor by hours instead, would be a more precise and secure monitoring, because it would allow me to now that ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew

Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Enable Profiling for Openshift containers by environment var

Feature Request​Original ticket: We are wondering if it's possible to enable java profiling (https://www.instana.com/docs/profiling/configure-profile) just for Openshift containers with a defined env. variable.Example: com.instana.plugin.profiling...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

Add Support for Java - Akka - Alpakka JMS Framework

Dear Instana Team, for the New Relic Migration, we have teams using the Java-based AKKA - JMS Alpakka Framework.It seems like this Framework is not supported / Instrumented by Instana.We noticed this because we do not see any incoming messages in ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Not under consideration