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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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Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew

Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Enable Profiling for Openshift containers by environment var

Feature Request​Original ticket: We are wondering if it's possible to enable java profiling (https://www.instana.com/docs/profiling/configure-profile) just for Openshift containers with a defined env. variable.Example: com.instana.plugin.profiling...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

Add Support for Java - Akka - Alpakka JMS Framework

Dear Instana Team, for the New Relic Migration, we have teams using the Java-based AKKA - JMS Alpakka Framework.It seems like this Framework is not supported / Instrumented by Instana.We noticed this because we do not see any incoming messages in ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Not under consideration

Add Support for Spring Remoting - HTTP-Invoker in Java Sensor

Motivation:-----------One of the biggest NR user Teams inside of our company is making heavy use of the Spring HTTP-Invoker functionality to do remote calls over HTTP.Instana does not support this at the moment, which causes the team to not see ca...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Extend backend APIs to export/import gracefully all possible configurations rather than just a few

As an AIOPs practictioner I would want to see the API's (only APIs not the UI) behind config-migration feature be extended to support the migration of all possible Insatna configurations. Currently, it is only limited to Applications, Websites, Mo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent / Alert / API-C / Backend Enablement / Extend Capabilities / Integrations / Self Hosted / SRE 3 Not under consideration

Ability to switch between versions of API documentation

The customer would like to have an ability to switch between versions of API documentation: https://instana.github.io/openapi/. Currently, we are able to see only the latest version without any possibility to switch to any other version.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / API-C / Common 2 Not under consideration

Customer wants the roadmap for Instana to cover the Cloud Native services mentioned in the attached sheet.

IBM is responding to an RFP by HDFC Bank Ltd and pitching IBM Instana/ Watson AIOPS Event Manager / SevOne with a potential deal size of $8-10M. Customer wants clarification on whether the Cloud Native services in the attached sheet already is / w...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 2 Not under consideration

Migration feature should not be visible for all

Currently the Migration feature can be accessed by any user logged into Instana. I was able to test and reproduce this behaviour on a local On-Prem install by enabling the following feature flag: configMigrationFeatureEnabled Any user can then see...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Not under consideration

Tracing support for Compute type message flow node

instana ace tracing supports MQ/HTTP node type, customer TrinaSolar is using lots of message flow nodes with Compute type when developing integreation applications. customer would like INSTANA can trace the http call handled by Compute node.
about 2 years ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Not under consideration

Warning and Critical are two rules -> Must be correlatable

Warning and Critical are two rules -> Must be correlatable
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration