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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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Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists

Provide more smart alert state controls

Smart Alerts have evaluation (frequency) and number of occurrences but does not have escalation past the warning to critical. State Shifts good - warning good - critical warning - critical warning - good critical - warning critical - good And the ...
18 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Need maturity in Custom Edition

We need to significantly improve the maturity of the Custom Edition offering. This includes: documented backup/restore procedures Sizing tool for HA configurations Tuning guidelines for the key components (datastores, filler, etc.). Ideally, auto-...
20 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need improved scalability for Standard Edition

The 3 server configuration of Standard Edition has improved scalability. It is at the point where the number of MVS support will support a large number of our customers (2250 MVS). However, Standard Edition falls short when it comes to the scalabi...
20 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
9 months ago in Instana / Python 4 Planned for future release

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories. Want capabilities that are similar to ITM v6. Customers use this capability to indicate whether their applications are performing properly. For example, if there are too many fi...
9 months ago in Instana / Common 1