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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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Active Directory Monitoring and Tracing

Application monitoring/tracing for Domain Controllers and Active Directory will improve our enterprise observability into a key application. By using Instana as the enterprise monitoring tool, we need all applications to be monitored/traced in a s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 3 Delivered

Support for Spring Cloud Starter Stream Solace 3.1.0

Support for Spring Cloud Starter Stream Solace 3.1.0 https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.solace.spring.cloud/spring-cloud-starter-stream-solace/3.1.0 Spring Cloud Stream Solace is also heavily used in sever projects and sadly it doesn't seem to...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java 1 Delivered

Add visibility into/present RFH2 (MQ/ACE) header elements in call analysis

RFH2 can contain arbitrary information in the form of xml element, which may be of interest to track/find specific messages (calls) based on whatever the client choose to put in the RFH2 header. This could give us an even greater advantage when sp...
over 2 years ago in Instana / MQ 1 Delivered

Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 4 Delivered

PowerVC sensor

Instana already has the Openstack sensor. Although it can help to discover and observe part of PowerVC, the diagnostics of the PowerVC compute instances are missing and cannot be monitored. Also the pHMC sensor does not cover the same functionalit...
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Delivered

Permissions - Configuration of Events, Alerts, Smart Alerts

We would like to prevent the user from deleting or disabling custom made Events, Alerts, Alert Channels made by other users and allow user to make their own.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert 1 Delivered

Couchbase DB support (couchbase client lib) for Nodejs APPs

It is a big disappointment that Nodejs Apps are not monitored for couchbase DB connections. Same is available for .NetCore . Can we please work on this. I am pretty sure it may not be big change , for us it is a blocker to product we are using cou...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node 5 Delivered

Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x

According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Event API: Fetch events related a single entity or a query

As an IT Ops engineer looking into specific entities in any 3rd party tools backed by Instana data, I would like to fetch / see all the existing issues and incidents of a specific entity. Currently, we have the API: https://instana.github.io/opena...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Delivered

Add tags to k8s-sensor

We would like to add tags to the new k8s-sensor in the same way we add tags to Instana agents. In our case we are using your Helm chart to deploy Instana in kubernetes clusters and we are using the k8s-sensor: https://github.com/instana/helm-chart...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered