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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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Relative deviation for custom events metrics

There should be a functionality to define the relative deviation instead of absolute deviation when creating custom events. For example, when we create a new custom event for "Entity - Application" and "Metric - Call count", we don't want to choos...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

Get container info button is available for containerd clusters

In clusters using the docker runtime there is a "container info" button in the UI - on the container details page - which shows environment variable values. This is missing for containerd clusters.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Delivered

Support RabbitMQ Engine for AmazonMQ

We want to migrate our self-managed RabbitMQ to managed AmazonMQ with RabbitMQ engine. Please add support for RabbitMQ engine to you AmazonMQ sensor covering the capabilities of RabbitMQ monitoring (including monitoring of queues).
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Ability to enrich alerts regarding websites

UseCase: Mydealz-Alertingwe always get a lot of traffic via Mydealz (for example with price errors). This can put too much load on the shop. That's why we want to be able to automatically block certain ProductDetailPages.Alerting is currently alre...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Email integration with the atlassian status page - Need dynamic configuration to be added as placeholder in email alert notification .

We would like up and down keyword to be send in email subject to integrate instana synthetic monitor with the atlassian status page as the email component only works in that way. Atlassian requirement : https://support.atlassian.com/statuspage/doc...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

Add authenticator module support in Instana Synthetics

The authenticator module (https://www.npmjs.com/package/authenticator) will help scripted browser tests respond to 2FA with an automatically generated TOTP. This helps automate Web pages that implement and enforce 2FA.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Delivered

Custom dashboards: Copy or reference a widget from one dashboard to another

Background and context When creating many custom dashboards there is often the need to re-use a widget from one dashboard to another. One example is when creating a summary dashboard where widgets are re-used from several more detailed dashboards....
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Delivered

Support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x and v3.10.x

We need support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x (customer currently have 3.9.13) and v3.10.x. RabbitMQ v3.9.x is currently much more important but for a futureproof v3.10.x should be supported as well.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 1 Delivered

Make Website Metrics available in SLO Widget

Make Websites metrics available in SLO Widgets. Stats like "First Contentful Paint", "Page Views", "Time to First Byte", and "OnLoad Time". Currently only Application perspectives are supported.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

Add "load more" button to see more than 10 items on the tile instead of grouping under others. Or add option while creating editing tile to add more than 10 items in the list.

Add "load more" button to see more than 10 items on the tile instead of grouping under others. Or add option while creating editing tile to add more than 10 items in the list.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered