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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 Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Request to be able to get a list of all currently active users in WebGUI from CLI

From CLI to be able to generate a list of all the active users currently in WebGUI. A list of all currently active users would be added to a log when run or when scheduled. Allowing the Admins to see and log who was online and when.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Snmpv3 -add support for HMAC-SHA authentication protocol

When the probe is set to receive SNMP v3 notifications, it is necessary to develop functionality for the probe to support Hash-based message authentication code (HMAC) - Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA) authentication protocol. We had requests from a ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Remote monitoring PostgreSQL

With switching to a new hosting provider we won't be able to install Instana agent locally to PostgreSQL-servers anymore. To have end-to-end visibility, please provide a means to configure the Instana agent to monitor PostgreSQL clusters running o...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Maintenance Dashboard needs Enhancement

Currently the Maintenance Dashboard has the option of creating a Maintenance Schedule for suppressing the alert but as per our audit requirements we need to have the informations about 1. Who created the schedule? 2. Why was this schedule created?...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AWS Lambda "invoke" instrumentation

Hello, Recently we have been trying to add our AWS Lambdas to our instana monitoring. We successfully added the node package where it was needed and got good results on lambda call via Messaging (like SQS) or Api Gateways. But we have a problem wh...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Log4Net & SeriLog missing tags

Instana's log monitoring supports several very useful default tags, some of these tags are sadly not filled in for the popular .NET (Framework) logging frameworks, see below. Please fill these tags such that we can actually use the log monitoring,...
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET / Azure / Logging 0 Future consideration

Source address to traces/calls

It would be great to have some kind of source information always visible for traces/calls. However it is not always feasible to have the source application instrumented, or even to have an Instana-agent installed on the source host/node. Could...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Custom MessageKey value for XMLGateway and Kafka

nco_g_xml_11 allow using only @ServerSerial or @ServerName as value for ate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property. We need to use at leas the combination of the both fields (for example: @ServerName+to_char(@ServerSerial)) or any other field from Objects...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Instana should support memory profiling for dotnet core applications

at present dot net core applications can show CPU profiling only. I could not have a view of memory profiles. that is why have to reply on manual profiling. Please provide this integration. One of out app is showing continuos increasing memory thanks
6 months ago in Instana / .NET / Azure 1 Not under consideration

Support apache http client 5.X

The apache http client version 5.x has now been released for 3 years and is meeting a large adoption as a replacement for the 4.x client. Instana should add support for this client.
6 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Planned for future release