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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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Ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events

Need ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events. Required format - subject line+ service name.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Response Time For User Actions

We are using Instana to monitor for our web application availability, performances etc. We would like to have a way to get the processing time or response time for each user actions done on the application. For example: When the user login to the ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Make release marker selection time based

In the cause of evaluation of usability of release marker information in ci/cd environment we found it would be extremly useful if release marker selection would also optionally timebased.Please note support ticket TS016695080 related.
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Create Business Perspective per Process Application

When creating a new Perspective in the Business Monitoring capability of Instana I would like to be able to filter on Process Applications to be able to create a Perspective per Process Application. All business processes for that Process Applicat...
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Improvement of Display Contents for UNDO Tablespace Usage

The status of the extents in the UNDO tablespace is listed as follows on DBA_UNDO_EXTENTS (oracle.com) https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16338_01/server.112/b56311/statviews_5078.htm: ACTIVE EXPIRED UNEXPIRED However, according to information from Oracl...
4 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Filter conditions should be private / shared by certain permissions

Instana users can "save, edit, and delete filters". https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-filtering-dynamic-focus And it is 'shared' with all users automatically. But if a customer plans to accept Instana corporat...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Support for Logging for IBM ACE

To compete with Nodinite that currently offers logging for IBM ACE. https://docs.nodinite.com/Documentation/LoggingAndMonitoring/IBM%20Integration%20Bus Could also be if we can use OpenTelemetry to gather logs from IBM ACE that may be an option?
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Addition of K8's events in custom payload to add in alerts

It would be really good to have k8s events under custom payloads to be added in alerts to let the spoc know where the issue lies ,or what happened at the last with the component,
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted