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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?
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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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

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

Cost of ownership / internal charge back use-case

The customer is using LeanIX for "application inventory". They would like to add a tag (which in this case would contain the unique leanix id) to the application perspectives so a correlation can be done. The request to us is to consider allowing ...
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Sensor/Metrics for AWS Auto Scale Groups

Would be really useful to map scaling activity across time/Alert on maximum scale reached. ASG could be also used to determine online/offline. 
over 5 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0

Support Grafana template variables

The grafana plugin doesn't support template variables, can we please enable them?
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Planned for future release

Provide Cache metrics for JBoss DataGrid

Instana should expose metrics about the general per-cache behaviour for short-term analysis with transaction correlation and long-term for capacity planning and analyzability.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Not under consideration

HAproxy reload is supported

Whenever HAProxy gets reloaded (because rules changed), the HAProxy process will get a new PID. Instana at this point will record the HAProxy as a new instance and this loop will continue over and over. Could we get this fixed?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Extend Instana Server upgrade support version range to support more version jumps

Issue: For Instana server upgrade, there is a limitation that the target version can not be bigger 3 than the current version. For example, Instana 209 can be updated to 211 and 213, but can not be updated to 215. Workaround: To upgrade from 209 t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration