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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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Metric to see inflight request in each service

How to measure inflight request in each service? Number of request processed by application or service at any point in time. This is not same as request per second. An application may get many request at a time. In that how many are actually being...
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Flutter Multiple Backend Configuration

Currently, Instana flutter agent (and mobile app in general) only support sending monitoring data to a single backend. For customer with high availability active-active setup, sending data to 1 backend will definitely impact the data availability....
4 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

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

Monitor on message types

Hi, We have some requirements where instead of putting a certain message id to monitor. We monitor all *INQUIRY messages which has not been responded within a certain period of time. If an INQUIRY message is still waiting for a reply for more than...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Need an alert configuration for Instana License expiry

Hi Team, We would like to have an alert configuration to notify us on the license expiration. It will be helpful for us to renew the license on time. We request you to please consider this request into consideration.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

APIs needed for adding Tags and Zones for Instana agents

It will allow to do bulk tags and zones for a group of agents. We can of course use git based and Ansible but APIs are these days the easiest one to go for and if you provide swagger gui for APIs it will be even easier to manage. Since you are giv...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Improve Percentage Calculation in Big Number Widget

We need the Big Number widget to accurately calculate and display percentages for metrics like users or sessions affected by crashes or errors. Currently, selecting the percentage option simply multiplies the number by 100, rather than calculating...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Submit complex IBM ELM JVM Mbeans or string based Mbeans as events or logs to Instana

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Extending Instana JAVA-Sensor to collect additional metrics from IBM ELM JVM's

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release