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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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Filter calls on the agent level based on IP addresses

We are running Network Scans against our Linux Server on which our Applications are running. This results in a lot of Calls against our Applications which are traced in instana and looks like an attack. We would like to filter these calls on agent...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists

Support different Container Runtimes in Helm Chart

Different container runtimes make their socket available under different paths inside their filesystem. For example containerd socket is under: /var/run/containerd/containerd.sock Dockers socket is under: /var/run/docker.sock Currently only the do...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew

Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Support for monitoring the RedHat virtualization platform

Couple of potential customers are using the RHV and they need complete monitoring of the platform in addition to the infra monitoring for each individual hosts similar to VMWare. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

High Availability (HA) for Instana AWS Agent (Cloud Watch Kinesis Stream)

Introduction:-------------We want to make heavy use of the AWS Instana Agent on various AWS Accounts 50+. The Teams want to see and use the AWS Metric Data in Instana for Alerting and Analysis.Therefore we plan to set up an Instana AWS Agent. We l...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Enable Profiling for Openshift containers by environment var

Feature Request​Original ticket: We are wondering if it's possible to enable java profiling (https://www.instana.com/docs/profiling/configure-profile) just for Openshift containers with a defined env. variable.Example: com.instana.plugin.profiling...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

Add Support for Java - Akka - Alpakka JMS Framework

Dear Instana Team, for the New Relic Migration, we have teams using the Java-based AKKA - JMS Alpakka Framework.It seems like this Framework is not supported / Instrumented by Instana.We noticed this because we do not see any incoming messages in ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Not under consideration

Add Support for Spring Remoting - HTTP-Invoker in Java Sensor

Motivation:-----------One of the biggest NR user Teams inside of our company is making heavy use of the Spring HTTP-Invoker functionality to do remote calls over HTTP.Instana does not support this at the moment, which causes the team to not see ca...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Instana Event REST-API -> Add filter options for GET /events

Use-Case:----------The Client wants to get all active Events for a Team in his company to define a team's Environment/Services status.This status of all Events should be aggregated to one Status (if one has an error, Status is in error, else good)...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Planned for future release

Merge/Group Availability Zones and Custom Zones on Infrastructure Map

For Customers it is beneficial to merge i.e. AWS services and EC2 instances in the group of the infra overview in Instana to understand quickly which hosts are relevant/heatly/etc. A couple of tickets was found with the similar request: https://in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists