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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 sensor for enterprisedb (EDB)

EnterpriseDB (EDB) is IBM's strategic direction for Postgresql databases. Many IBM solutions including watsonx, IBM Cloud Paks/Foundational Services, and more will be using EDB going forward. EDB is also a strategic direction for IBM as we are an ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Analytics grouping by K8s annotations

It would be great if in analytics we were able to group by kubernetes annotations. We retrieve some infrastructure information from analytics and for us it would make sense to be able to group by annotations as at the end some of them have a clust...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Not under consideration

Report properly OOM pod events

Make sure all OOMs are reported properly.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration

Add customizable columns to the event page

It would be nice to have customizable columns on the events list.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Enable custom Instana SDK instrumentation on an individual pod

Adding custom spans to Java applications using the Instana SDK requires configuration on the agent. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk#example When the Instana agent is dep...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Add dump java object in heap memory

It would be useful to have the possibility to observ and determine which Java Object consume memory in the heap memory. Actually with the profiling we could see which process consume CPU or is waiting but there is no information about the memory. ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Instana REST API: Allow aligning datapoints with 24 hour granularity to timezones other than GMT

Using Instana application analyze REST API, if I request datapoints with a 24 hour granularity and a window size equal to a whole number of days, I will only get the expected response if my timeFrame is aligned with GMT date boundaries. If I want ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Selective access to logs

Similar to Applications, Infrastructure, etc. It should be possible to restrict access to logs based on specific criteria. Ideally logs would be filtered according to permissions on Applications + Infrastructure. Additionally It'd be great to eith...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration