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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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Need ways to customize logo for emails Instana sends

Dear colleagues, our customer has asked if we allow to add a custom logo into Instana email notification, would be nice to have that feature for all of on-premises environments. Please consider adding the option Thank you
25 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Make Stack and Up-/Downstream information visible for AWS ActiveMQ Server

Fill Instana Active MQ Monitoring Dashboard Button 'Stack' and 'Upstream/Downstream' Buttons
25 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Add AWS Neptune Service monitoring

Instana AWS sensor has already good amount AWS services to be monitored and I would like to request to add monitoring support for the AWS Neptune service.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Add dynamic value tags to alerts in non-global custom payloads

Hi, Can you please add ability to choose dynamic tag values for non-global custom payloads on alerts? Currently this is only available for global custom payload (see attached picture). Best regards,ldrascic
26 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Submitted

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment.

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment. In an OpenShift environment, K8Sensor runs as three PODs by default. The first deployed pod is designated as the leader pod and is responsible for s...
28 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Kubernetes CronJob Monitoring and Tracing

Ability to monitor CronJob as a separate service and enable tracing for CronJobs will help in monitoring the downstream calls just like other services. CronJobs can call other services using Rest APIs. It is helpful if we can monitor those Rest AP...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 8

SLO window size increase

Currently windows size for SLOs is 4 weeks. Considering data retention is 13 months it would make sense to be able to select your window size to any specific size within that period. This would allow to check SLOs and error budgets evolutions over...
about 2 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review