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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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Generate the automation script/curl command for the configuration changes on the Instana UI

Customer can make lot of changes using the web ui but most clients that follow DevOps process would like to automate this step and implement the change using some script/API. It would helpful if the UI could provide the curl command for the config...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Nginx Metric Collection

The customer wants to enable metric collection for their Nginx-based application. These applications are containerized and running on OpenShift. We totally understand that we should change nginx.conf file in order to enable metrics collection (htt...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

Enhance abnormal process termination detection with process name/PID of the KILL signal origin

The eBPF process termination sensor could enrich generated the events with name and PID of the process that sent the KILL signal. Similar to what BCC does: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/killsnoop_example.txt
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 1 Not under consideration

Docker container network utilization metrics

There is a need for a metrics/Dashboard to view all the pods which are inactive since a certain time period (last 2 weeks)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Metric Store 2 Not under consideration

Get warning if heap-size for datastore in settings.hcl is smaller then recommended size

When Instana is setup, we can add in settings.hcl configurations related to the heap size of each Instana datastore/component. It would help to generate a warning (while running an instana command or directly in Instana itself) to alert that the g...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Access audit logs to server to use in SPLUNK

Would like to have logs written to the server. As an on-prem customer, we keep tabs on the server and logs with Splunk. Go getting the audit log via the UI isn't the best solution for their use case.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Grafana template variables

The grafana plugin doesn't allow to use template variables. can you consider adding support for it?
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Not under consideration

Data after retention period is not correct

The Unbounded Analytics is operating on the data-set that's in the data-store for the selected timeframe. When the timeframe is outside of the (full-granularity) short term window that is defined in the self-hosted configuration the results are im...
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Instana k8s as operator + customer file - Exclude namespaces

It definitively makes sense to provide a mechanism which allows users to exclude entities from monitoring based on annotations and meta data
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Not under consideration

Add an "export to CSV" button to extract information from instana

The customer would like to have an option to "export data to CSV" from the analytic view in order to extract data from Instana to generate reports for SLA for their clients.
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration