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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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Release Notes / Changelog for API

I never find API related release notes/change logs anywhere. Please publish them with every new release, so that we can understand what has changed and how when updating our services.
over 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Planned for future release

Add possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds for all JVM custom metric sources

It appears only prometheus-java-client-library has the possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds and changing it DOES NOT appear to affect the other JVM custom metric sources, like micrometer. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add Weblogic Name in filter/group fields of custom dashboards

Today the only attribute related to Weblogic Servers (WLS) is the port. It's clearly not enough. Please include server name in the Dynamics Focus search, the filter and group fields in custom dashboards widgets.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Custom dashboards: Big number percent widget

Background and context When creating custom dashboards and specifically the big number widget we are currently limited to show data from a dataset for where a specific filter can be created. There is no way to show a relation between two datasets....
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

Turn on Ruby AutoProfiling via the ruby-sensor gem

As you can imagine we run many containers within our infrastructure and we want to be able to turn on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling#ruby. However, as you are probably aware this comes with a performa...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Ruby 0 Planned for future release

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
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

POC-Arlo - MQTT metric monitoring

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 3 Planned for future release

Make Trace Latency = Trace Duration rather than duration of Root Span

In asynchronous processes this can disguise the true duration of a business process and prevent Instana from being able to alert when customers are having a bad experience.
over 5 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Make SLO status more clear using Red/Orange indicator (SLOv2)

Customer want to use the big number widget in status dashboard using SLI / SLI data source. While using this if the SLO is less than 100% and greater than 99.95% they wanted to keep an Orange color and for the less than 99.50% they need a Red colo...
4 months ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Enable support for STIBO metrics

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release