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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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Open ID connect - Group based access

The customer has integrated the Open ID connected to our self-hosted Instana. They would like to have the options for giving access to group-based access. Currently any authenticated users can be given access with Default roles. But they would lik...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

group of calls "Without log message"

They want the possibility to group the calls "Without log message" in Analytics.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

SSO and Groups

The idea would be that we configure the dedicated groups in AD and assign them to the corresponding users. Instana would have to use the group provided in the SAML request and map the user to the group within Instana.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Scope of the Smart alert are not based on Individual endpoints

trying to group alerts based on individual endpoints
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Removal of temporary files

I have the following feature request:1. if the Instana agent is stopped it should remove its temporary files2. If the Instana agent is started it should remove old temporary files. This can happen if the Instana agent has previously not stopped co...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

An option to group calls based on Percentile view in dashboards

The customer would like to have an option to group calls based on Percentile view in dashboard.Business Use CaseIt will be a nice observability feature to have in dashboards to show the calls trend based on percentile view this gives a clear pictu...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Functionality already exists

"number of restarts" as timeseries metric for K8s sensor

The priority for The customer is to get rid of prometheus  and move those infra structure related alarms to Instana. One popular subset / category is alert/alarm when PODs are restarting to avoid potential transnational issues.Example if POD ...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Detecting Instana Agents not reporting data

No description provided
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Functionality already exists

Service Entity rules with an Application Perspective scope should only fire if calls in the AP are impacted

TL DR - the customer expectation when setting up a Service alert with an Application Perspective scope is that it uses the same KPIs that they see when viewing the service within the AP.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Alerts for endpoints do not contain details of the service they are part of

Service details should be included in Endpoint events when sent via Alert Channels. Without this information they can't route events to the correct team and want to use us as a key part of their alerting strategy.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

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