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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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RBAC - Add support for AD Group to Instana Group mapping

The customer would like to manage users by linking AD Groups to Groups within Instana so that I do not have to recreate teams and roles which already exist within Active Directory.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

POC-Arlo - MQTT metric monitoring

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 3 Planned for future release

Ability to create custom events with more than one metric

Customer needs to alert on certain custom and build in metrics in combination with other metrics. Some use cases include the combination of custom metrics collected by Micrometer or Prometheus. Other use cases are to create "optimized/revised" ver...
over 4 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Create Application Perspective stuck in creating page if the user doesn't have Access to the APP

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Is a defect

RBAC-Delegated administration

Separate permissions on access scope level should be introduced that allow/deny configuring application perspectives teammembers and their roles/permissions events ...
about 5 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0

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.
about 5 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Need to create alert based on trace / http metric value

create a custom alert (and thus event in the first instance) in our Production Instana instance.EVENT: The application is "Card Services" the metric is "Call latency" (P99) and the filter I'm trying to apply is on call.http.path that equals a spec...
about 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

[Copy] Ability to aggregate the async latency number collected from traces

We would like to be able to aggregate the async latency number that already exists in the UI for traces. Ideally we would want to create alerts on outlying numbers.  This would be very useful to understand whether full user journeys have degr...
20 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Make SLO status more clear using Red/Orange indicator (SLOv2)

Customer want to use the big number widget in status dashboard using SLI / SLI data source. While using this if the SLO is less than 100% and greater than 99.95% they wanted to keep an Orange color and for the less than 99.50% they need a Red colo...
about 2 months ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Support for multiple proxy servers in the agent configuration

The ability to configure and use multiple proxy servers, which can enhance network flexibility, redundancy, and HA.
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration