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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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Need to monitor Durable queues

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors Durable queues with Tivoli Monitoring in a way we can't replicate in Instana. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below are the dif...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need Instance parameter representation in thresholds and percentiles

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several parameters that we need to monitor Queue Channels: Instance numbers Instance percentile Channels percentile Our customer monitors them with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Dashboards not embeddable in an iframe due to CORS Restrictions

Dear Instana support team, while migrating from New Relic to Instana, some of the SBB Teams are trying to integrate their current Dashboards with the Instana Dashboards.One of the problems which occurred today is that we are not able to integrate ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

NFS share observability metrics

The customer is currently utilizing NFS shares for diverse applications, including the active-passive availability of their IT systems. They have expressed an interest in integrating the Instana observability platform to monitor their NFS shares e...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Support different Container Runtimes in Helm Chart

Different container runtimes make their socket available under different paths inside their filesystem. For example containerd socket is under: /var/run/containerd/containerd.sock Dockers socket is under: /var/run/docker.sock Currently only the do...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Support for monitoring the RedHat virtualization platform

Couple of potential customers are using the RHV and they need complete monitoring of the platform in addition to the infra monitoring for each individual hosts similar to VMWare. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Add built-it metric to monitor top queries running more than 1 hour

In current Instana, monitor the top queries running more than 100 seconds, this 100 seconds is too short in our case. We want to monitor the running queries more than 1 hour. Please add this capability, thanks.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add tags on every level of the landscape

Please add the ability to apply tags on every level, not just on hosts. So i.e. tag a Tomcat with a specific label or tag a java process as per desire.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Dependency map service locations

The map build up by Instana seems to shuffle the services around at random. Meaning if you are analysing the map and either it refreshes or you reload the page, the service can be somewhere else. This is confusing for users
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Tag prefix defintion for teams in RBAC avoiding uncontrolled growth in APs

To avoiding an uncontrolled growth in APs, we suggest to set tag-prefixes per team to allow an easy recognition and applying of naming convention for APs.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

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