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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Ability to create custom events with more than one metric

Customer needs to alert on certain custom and build in metrics in combination with other metrics. Some use cases include the combination of custom metrics collected by Micrometer or Prometheus. Other use cases are to create "optimized/revised" ver...
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Create Application Perspective stuck in creating page if the user doesn't have Access to the APP

No description provided
about 4 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Is a defect

Support for MapR Kafka Streams Library for producer and consumer

No description provided
about 4 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Not under consideration

Profiler support for vendor 'Private Build'

Profiler does not work when the vendor is Private Build. Feature request is to allow users to specify that the Profiler should still attempt to operate against the runtime if the runtime is supported.
about 4 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

POC-Arlo - Libraries to help automate C++ instrumentation

The customer has a large monolithic app that comprises about 1/3 of their environment that is written in C++. They are aware that instrumentation via web trace sdk is possible but have declined to use this due to required code changes. If we could...
over 4 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Service Entity rules with an Application Perspective scope should only fire if calls in the AP are impacted

TL DR - the customer expectation when setting up a Service alert with an Application Perspective scope is that it uses the same KPIs that they see when viewing the service within the AP.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Alerts for endpoints do not contain details of the service they are part of

Service details should be included in Endpoint events when sent via Alert Channels. Without this information they can't route events to the correct team and want to use us as a key part of their alerting strategy.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

RBAC-Delegated administration

Separate permissions on access scope level should be introduced that allow/deny configuring application perspectives teammembers and their roles/permissions events ...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0

Make Trace Latency = Trace Duration rather than duration of Root Span

In asynchronous processes this can disguise the true duration of a business process and prevent Instana from being able to alert when customers are having a bad experience.
over 4 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Integration with Logging tools - Scalyr

Feature Request: Integration with Logging tools to allow easy access to/from Instana.Tools: Scalyr Splunk.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration