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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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Alert notifications per user/team

Instead of defining integrations for Slack/Email, etc. a user, if affected for an alert, should be able to setup his preferred way of being contacted through a user profile alike approach. This is only relevant for alerting options having user acc...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

"tag prefixes" in infrastructure map

Suppose we have 3 agents with the following tags:agent1: app=shop1agent2: app=shop2agent3: app=shop1 + app=shop2When I open the InfraMap grouped by tag prefix “app=” I see two groups (shop1 and shop2) and the agent3 belongs to one of them – depend...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Instana Agent minimal requirements pre-req check and notification

Instana Agent minimal requirements pre-req check and notification
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

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

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