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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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Monitoring FileNet with Instana

We want to monitor FileNet product by using Instana. We can monitor FileNet calls using the power of Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Log message body information sent via OpenTelemetry

Forwarding Golang and Nodejs application logs which are deployed in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service to Instana agent or Instana backend via fluentbit using OpenTelemetry exporter
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 7 Not under consideration

Data Retention after Out of Memory error.

IBM Support Ticket TS014348006 describes a scenario where data in Instana is removed after a JVM on a host suffers an Out of Memory error. We can understand why data would not be available from the time of the error and until service is restored, ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Synthetics tests versioning

It would be great to automatically version Synthetic tests, so that users can scroll, see changes, and if necessary revert to older versions of tests and their configuration
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change Instana Tenant Names and Add Description

Need ability to change tenant names displayed without impacting monitoring of applications and add description along with tenant names in Instana Tenant Switcher page. Please Note : No modifications in the URL's is required as it would impact moni...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Built in event to alert for Windows service not running

Currently, built in events only support for process monitoring. However certain Windows processes such as IIS workers run in the background during periods of inactivity and start backup once corresponding .NET application receives traffic. Alertin...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Capture details on request payload

Need ability to capture details on request payload this helps to troubleshoot issues without need for applications to log the same. Feature available with competitors. Please refer to - https://docs.appdynamics.com/appd/4.5.x/en/application-monito...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent. A customer is doing remote detection of problems. They want to be able to open an Event and have the Event indicate that it is affectin...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Allow user to increase retention for specific call/traces

Hello, it would be great if users could selectively extend retention beyond short term retention (currently set to default value of 7 days) of specific calls/traces e.g. by referencing calls/traces in analytic query. Other option would be to mark ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

API - missing link between service and process

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the whole application stack (AP > service > process > host) through the Instana API. Currently I'm using the following API requests: {{baseURL}}/api/application-monitoring/applications?nameFilter=xxx {{baseURL}}...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration