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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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Need to mask portion of the request path url (Path Variable)

Need to mask portion of the request path url (Path Variable). for example : https://my.domain/accounts/324345/status want to mask the path variable - 324345
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Enhancement in MQ Events

As part of testing MQ Events, we tried to create an event integrated with PagerDuty. Once the event is triggered below JSON data event gets published to Pager Duty as an event API. { "client": "Instana", "client_url": https://prod-loblaw.instana-t...
4 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Functionality already exists

Top Hosts By System Uptime

Today, we have the host uptime information when looking at the 'Started At' data when drilling into an individual host. We would like to see the top hosts based on uptime duration on a custom consolidated dashboard so we can see which one(s) have ...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

'order-by' functionality for the traces api

We are in need of 'order-by' functionality for the traces(/api/application-monitoring/analyze/traces) api. We have executed the following request with this body as a post request to /api/application-monitoring/analyze/traces . But we haven't recei...
about 1 month ago in Instana / API-C 0 Submitted

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
7 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Future consideration

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Use custom headers to map dependencies

At Capitec, we have a custom header which we are already including in our transactions: x-capitec-correlation-id. We have enabled our agents to capture this header and we are making us of it in the transactions analytics section where we set a fil...
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Custom Dashboards: Creating calculated values and then plotting them

In custom dashboards today, we can't seem to create a calculated value and then plot it as a single line. For example: 1) Go to dashboards and create a new time series widget. 2) Use data source: Infrastructure & Platforms 3) For metrics, u...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review