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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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INSTANA Agent to detect external intrusion

Hi, Could you manage the implementation of a feature where the INSTANA agent will be able to detect a tentative of intrusion on a host or some malware trying to use a vulnerability in the application.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Percentage calculation between two filters

Hello, I wanted to submit an idea for a feature as i came across different usecases that could be fulfilled with instana's data. The idea would be to be able to calculate a percentage between two filters and be able to :- display it on a dashboard...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Planned for future release

LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

APM WebLogic Agent Transaction tracking to include "GridLink" DataSources

Currently Transaction tracking by WebLogic Agent doesn't support to monitor "GridLink" datasources and is limited to show only Generic datasources in JDBC Connections. Customers are intrested to get details w.r.t GridLink too.
over 2 years ago in Instana 3 Not under consideration

ISM protocols in Instana

We would like to add ISM functionalities from the ISM agent (ITM and APM) to the Instana. It is necessary for us to have these functionalities so we can propose to our current customers to transfer from the ITM/APM solutions to Instana. Several of...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Future consideration

Enhance EUM to include Session Replay

We have application teams who are using Dynatrace's Session Replay feature. To move to Instana they are requiring this feature.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

OpenResty Alpine Module Build for Nginx tracing 1.19.9

Customer is trying to monitor kong.They currently use image based on an alpine image: https://hub.docker.com/layers/kong/library/kong/2.5.1-alpine/images/sha256-6896f87b90dcea49ee7009a9963a709e5644ebf0dff8491d2c010bf7fab6a974?context=exploreT...
almost 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Data after retention period is not correct

The Unbounded Analytics is operating on the data-set that's in the data-store for the selected timeframe. When the timeframe is outside of the (full-granularity) short term window that is defined in the self-hosted configuration the results are im...
almost 3 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Instana k8s as operator + customer file - Exclude namespaces

It definitively makes sense to provide a mechanism which allows users to exclude entities from monitoring based on annotations and meta data
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Not under consideration

Hostname details instead of service name in custom event alert?

The customer would like to see Hostname details in custom event alerts instead of service or process names.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists