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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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Instana

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Tagging, Management Zone (GUI)

We need to tag service/host/anyCI and show them under logical grouping. Easy filtering with tagging
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Baseline Anomaly - Failure Rate

There is no option of adoptive threshold for erroneous calls. Alternative %10 & %20 static threshold, too many alerts
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Automatic injection Configure via UI (Enable/Disable) Ignore browser version DZM data collector for internet apps these are the things we found rum is lacking at the moment. we are also using dynatrace so we usually compare instana with dynatrace ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

• We can not create a custom event same same properties with built-in event.

Exp: CPU Steal Time exceeded – “Number of violations as a condition” property does not exist. we have to be able to recreate the builtin events so that we can create them using different threshoulds and such. some of the events does not meet our d...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

• Custom Service Detection

With a custom service detection, we need to create a custom service and monitor specifying class and methods. Instana is partially capable of doing it at the moment. however it requires to change the code itself and it is nearly impossible to do i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

URL based parsing

We need to seperate URLs into logical service groups. Our monitoring capabilities are depending on this feature
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Needs more information

Service naming feature

We need to adapt monitored service names with our CMDB. So, we need to re-naming auto detected service, host, process names. Difficult usage: SDK, environment variable definition no regex rules, no separete service type (custom service)
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

exception ignore

We need to ignore some business exception and doesn’t mark as a fail and alert. because every operation has its own bussiness exceptions and sometime they can be ignored for a period of time.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

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