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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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Detecting Instana Agents not reporting data

No description provided
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Functionality already exists

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

HPA values for a Kubernetes namespace

The customer would like to plot/monitor the HPA values [default CPU based] in Instana.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0

Potential Problems Digest

a single location for viewing/reviewing anomalies is desired.Customer’s use case needs a 1-week look back
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Remove excessive or unwanted StatsD metrics from the Instana

The customer wants to remove xbroker related metrics and has stopped the script which pushes these values to Instana. So they can see just metric names and not the value. They want to remove these names also from Instana
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Open ID connect - Group based access

The customer has integrated the Open ID connected to our self-hosted Instana. They would like to have the options for giving access to group-based access. Currently any authenticated users can be given access with Default roles. But they would lik...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Need to Modify Built-in Event for System load too high (parametrization of built-in events)

The customer needs to modify one built-in event for High CPU Utilization .Changes they want in metric:
1. Load Threshold = 75 % (85% for streaming servers)
2. Sliding window span = 15 min Can you please help them to create a new built-in event wit...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

support for gRPC tracing for mobile clients

we mean the mobile end user monitoring enabled by the Instan iOS and Android agents that are currently based on the HTTP stacks of both platforms.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Automatic recognition of local DB2 instances

When using DB2 on the local machine only 1 DB is recognized namely the one you enter in the configuration. It is possible (inter has a script for this they can show us if needed) to recognize the instances which are running locally for automatic d...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Navigate with context to Events window.

from AP dashboards allow navigation directly to events with event.application/service/endpoint.name populated.
over 3 years ago in Instana 4 Not under consideration