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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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Support of Kotlin coroutines 1.6

Hello, We recently updated Kotlin coroutines to 1.6 and found out that we lost a certain amount of spans and custom tags after this upgrade. Can you plan to support at least this version shortly ? Kind Regards, Quentin
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Delivered

RBAC and specific role behavior for "agent management"

- Allow users to read the agents-list while not able to change loglevel or even reset/update every agent they like- Allow users to view configuration while not being able to change it (i.e. show AP configuration but not alter it)- Allow users to s...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered

allow users to comment "configuration elements"

please help users to document configured elements inside Instana with comment/description-fields on at least following configuration dialogs: - Create Application Perspective - Configure Services - Configure Endpoints - Access Control – Roles - Ac...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered

Context-sensitive tag picker on the infrastructure map

please make the tag-picker on the infrastructure map context-sensitive: With an active dynamic focus filter it should only show tags that are defined on matching agents.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

Add "Connection Pool" metric for JBoss EAP 7

I need to monitor the http connection pool usage on some jboss eap 7 instances. I am looking for the following metrics:- available in EAP 7.0.9 & 7.1. The runtime statistics can be obtained via JMX MBeans org.xnio:type=Xnio,provider="nio",work...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Delivered

Monitoring Weblogic - v14c not supported regarding IBM Instana documentation

Hi. Our big customer using Instana and core application on Weblogic. Recently they upgraded Weblogic ftom 12 > 14 but REGARDING Instana official documentation this is not supported: Currently supported versions are: 10gR3, 11gR1, 12cR1 and 12cR...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java 4 Delivered

Improved deployment strategy for Real User Monitoring tracking script

Some security scanners stumble over the missing integrity attribute on the eum.min.js for Instana Real User Monitoring capability leading to a potential security issue. In order to increase security and remove the concern it is requested to addres...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Delivered

Provide a way to disable Java distributed tracing on per app basis

The documentation shows a way to disable distributed instrumentation tracing for Java apps through host agent configuration: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=machine-java-configuration#disabling-automatic-instrumenta...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Support AWS Cloudfront

Hello, Would it be possible to monitor AWS Cloudfront services in Instana ? Regards, Quentin
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Add time shift comparison on a weekly base

Update: I've just seen this is already implented :) Dear Instana Devs and POs, We really like the newly introduced "Time Shift" feature of Instana. However, for our use cases, the options "Previous Timeframe" and "Yesterday" are often not sufficie...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Delivered