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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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Instana Agents Installation on FIPS Enabled Hosts

Instana agent installation fails on hosts that have FiPS enabled. The only way that we found to install on these hosts is manually using the following command: sudo rpm -ivh --nodigest --nofiledigest Since this command is bypassing a security meas...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Logging API and Grafana as log aggregator

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Grafana Loki as a log aggregator solution, their business is linked to it, their SREs use capabilities of searching filtering logging of that component. At the moment they consider using Instana as an applica...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Make Instana Agent API available on IPV4

We have a use case where we remote monitoring a database and need to access the instana agent API to generate events/changes/incidents but the API port is only available to the localhost so we cannot access it remotely. Making the APi port availab...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Display IP Address on Comparison Table

On comparison table, user can gather the overview condition of host utility, with hostname as its identifier. However, to validate and further troubleshoot the host condition, user will logon to the server by using IP address. Therefore knowing th...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 2

Availability Check for SAP Non ABAP Systems (Convergent Charging, BO Systems, SAP Web Dispatcher, and so on)

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored For Convergent Charging Systems: SAP CC Instance Availability High GC heap usage It would be helpful if Instana could execute Powershell scripts and evaluate the corresponding status of the ...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Availability Check of an SAP JAVA NetWeaver Instance and the necessary metrics

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored: Java System Availability (check the https://<<saphostname>>:<<Port>>/startPage) Java-System HTTP-Avilability (check the https://<<saphostname>>:<<P...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Dynamically Include % 5XX or 4XX Count in Smart Alerts

Hi Team, I need to include below information dynamically in smart Alarming . Impacted country code which want to publish on mail. % of failure and failure count for impacted API name So request you to please include all the above information shoul...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Add event triggered value in custom event subject and email.

we need to added as exist in build in event when it triggered it show the value in end of the subject like (12.31%) While it not shown in subject in custom events ... i need to include this reached value in subject because not exist also in Applic...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

At ALSAC we make extensive use of NetBrain to monitor our Network. It would be great if we could bring that data into Instana to add additional context to incidents.

Including data from the network domain would enable us to see relevant context if we have issues in our infrastructure. If we could achieve this we feel that we could resolve some of our incidents more quickly
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration