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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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Monitoring of Oracle E-Business application

Monitoring Oracle E-Business is not as simple as monitoring a java app with a single jar. It is difficult for the Instana agent to attach to jvm for Oracle E-Business. Some customers desire to monitor their Oracle EBS. Therefore, it would be nice ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

MSSQL Databases table usability improvements

The databases table for MSSQL is very useful to pinpoint which database is causing a high resource load, but the presentation of this table makes it hard to use: 1. The columns for User Connections, Virtual File Reads, Virtual File Writes and Tran...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Add using MS Active Directory user groups for managing user acces.

Give different access to the Instana application for members of Active Directory user group and not for specific user. Requested by Banks Security team
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for tracing HTTP CONNECT method

Many organizations require the use of an inline user-space (e.g., Squid) proxy when apps connect to the Internet. It would be very useful for the Instana agent to instrument common Java libraries to capture not only GET, PUT, etc., but also HTTP C...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

Multiple Choice for HTTP Status Codes alert

We were working on smart alert and just want to monitor 501,500,503,400,404 error. But don't see the abilities to add specific codes. Multiple Choice would be grate option to select alerts.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 3 Functionality already exists

Custom dashboards: Big number percent widget

Background and context When creating custom dashboards and specifically the big number widget we are currently limited to show data from a dataset for where a specific filter can be created. There is no way to show a relation between two datasets....
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

Analytics: Filter backend calls based on origin == mobile app

Background and context The context of this idea is that Instana is monitoring a backend api + a mobile app which is using that backend api. In this scenario there is a risk of getting other sources of traffic (scraping bots, malicious actors, frau...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Turn on Ruby AutoProfiling via the ruby-sensor gem

As you can imagine we run many containers within our infrastructure and we want to be able to turn on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling#ruby. However, as you are probably aware this comes with a performa...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Ruby 0 Planned for future release

support com.instana.secrets filtering on HTTP cookie headers

The HTTP Cookie header is useful to capture for debugging purposes. However, for security in depth it would be beneficial to be able to mask certain cookies, e.g. the login/session cookie.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Security and Compliance / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Capture number of batched statements in JDBC tracing

The Java JDBC instrumentation picks up calls to org.postgresql.jdbc.PgPreparedStatement#executeBatch. It would be great if Instana's tracing would also pick up (as in attach to the span and present in the UI), the number of batched SQL statements ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release

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