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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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Numeric span tag data type support for custom traces

In its current implementation all custom tag data are treated as string data and filter by the related operators (is present, equals, not present, contains etc). Please see a screenshot of the existing operators available for custom tags via the I...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2

Monitor external https endpoints

There are components /services in an application which do some calls to external http based services. I can see this calls in the analyze trace view. Is there a possibillity to get an aggregated view how this external service performs? In e.g. App...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Trace AWS Lambda for arbitrary function

Currently its expected that a Lambda function implements the interface com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler to get traced. Because this interface is not needed, it should be possible to trace any Lambda function.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Not under consideration

Trigger alert from offline event only if there was no restart after a configurable amount of time

Currently, if I create an alert based on an offline event, the alert will immediately be triggered when the entity goes offline. Often an entity is only restarted, so if an alert is generated that would be a false alert. Instead it should be possi...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Support for MicroProfile

We have microservices built on Eclipse MicroProfile would like to get this supported as well in Instana. MicroProfile provides standard implementations for metrics, tracing and health checks. We are using Payara Micro but also plan to use Quarkus.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release

Infrastructure Mapping for AWS Aurora/RDS instances

Currently we are facing the issue that for ex. AWS Aurora MySQL databases the infrastructure node is not mapped to the corresponding service in Instana. In the application perspective we can see the traces to this database instance. However, on th...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

supported cpu for detection of abnormal end of applications

One of our prospect of resell partner of Instana found that "no-support of Intel cpu" when its applications had been ended abnormally. The customer wondered why only AMD was supported, even Intel also share majority of market footprints. We need t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 3 Not under consideration

Support MongoDB Atlas properly

Please support MongoDB Atlas properly, so multiple clusters can be setup sepeartely.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Report properly OOM pod events

Make sure all OOMs are reported properly.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration