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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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Add Release marker end timestamp

I can create and update a release marker and it has a timestamp for start and last-updated. Is it possible to express a time range, to show up a long deployment? At the moment, our pipelines create a release marker, after all pods in a rolling upd...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

Need to add custom delay for agents to wait image from mirrored repository

Our customer has air-gapped environment and mirrored maven repository. However due to some reasons the Internet connection speed is not high enough. It means the default time the agent is waiting for a new sensor is too short for the connection. T...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Not under consideration

Supporting Apache Thrift (Tracing)

We need support for org.apache.thrift:libthrift:0.19.0. In order to get full tracing.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

AIX power swap and database tablespace name request

TradeVan is moving from ITM to Instana and facing lack of capabilties in Instana as compared to what they already have in ITM. Adding IBM CSM email as customer email is not available. From Tzung-Wen Liau: "Did you know how to get AIX swap informat...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 2 Future consideration

Making it easy to identify SqlInjection

For HTTP calls performed by GET, when a SqlInjection or other types of intrussions, one of the parameters in the query string contains the atack command (SQL or OS). In the application perspective, it is possible to filter by the partial content ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Need to configure MetaSpace for applications hsoted at EKS.

Dear Team, We are unable to get the metaspace configuration at instana agent for our java based application running at EKS.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Add possibility to analyze deployed version if different technologies

As Instana is capturing the currently deployed version of a software, we would like use this information in order to search for vulnerable and outdated versions (in addition to a source-based dependency analysis). We did try to analyze the deploye...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Please support AWS Managed Grafana Datasource

We would like to create a feature Request for support of AWS Managed Grafana: https://aws.amazon.com/de/grafana/ A list of supported datasources you can find here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/grafana/latest/userguide/AMG-data-sources-builtin.html ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

To be able to see POST parameters in Instana

The URI of the service called from the screen in the package used by the customer is /cc/claimcenter.do. Currently we cannot check that "which function to call is written in the parameters in the POST".So it will be great to see POST parameters in...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Variable Capabilitiy for Instana's Grafana Plugin

The Instana plugin for Grafana needs support for variables to be used in dashboards and queries. Without this, a Grafana dashboard that displays Instana data must use hard coded server names in the queries. Thus, to show the same graph for a diffe...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration