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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?
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Ability to have an "expand all" button for custom metrics

Customer is sending for each handheld mobile device (MDE) 2 StatsD metrics to Instana resulting in many "causes of problems" having to analyse each custom metric. It is easier to see if there is something going on when having the ability to open...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

understand which agent is used for monitoring a remote service

We are using remote monitoring of oracle-databases on some agents. How is it possible to identify in InstanaUI, which agent is executing the monitoring for a dedicated database / contains the config in configuration.yaml? This makes difficult al...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Improve UI for Agent details

The new ReWe onprem deployment will be running up to 30k agents in 1 TU. The UI doesn't work with this many agents in the agent reporting and details in the UI. It fails to load. I have talked to team infra and this is a known issue and I was aske...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Cross-account Cloud Run Agent

in the monitoring cloud run docs at some point it says You need to configure one Instana agent to monitor the GCP project that you are interested in. A dedicated machine needs to be used to monitor GCP resources. If you want to monitor multiple GC...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future 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

Make Context Guide information available via API

As an Instana user I would like to be able to export the information about the stack I see in the Context Guide via the API so that I can enrich the metric data we already use the API for. As an example I would like to be able to retrieve pod metr...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboards metric selection improvements in the legend / tooltip

A couple of requests from the customer for enhancing the colors on Custom Dashboards:* Colors palette should stay stable: Currently a refresh in live mode can return a new color for existing metric lines.* Re-use colors across widgets: If a metric...
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Ability for fine granular control which Prometheus metrics are captured

To avoid hitting the 600 metric border for Prometheus metrics customer has found it difficult to only use the "metricNameIncludeRegex" value to include metrics. They are seeking a way to EXCLUDE metrics which would be connected to Include with a l...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Every jobs dont repeat if the previous one has failed.

We would like an EVERY job to run in its next "time interval" even if it failed/error the previous attempt
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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