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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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Define reoccurring maintenance windows

Please offer the possibility to define reoccuring "maintenance windows". Usecase: Prevent getting alerts for process-restarts that are scheduled every night / every Sunday / on each 1. day of a month / …
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

To be able to monitor AlmaLinux

Currently AlmaLinux was not supported by Instana. Currently, the number of customers using AlmaLinux is increasing as it is the successor to centOS. So, it will be greate if Instana could monitor AlmaLinux.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Delivered

MQ Monitoring: Monitor the same Qmgr name on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml

Monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml is not supported for MQ sensor. MQ sensor can monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts, but need to be monitored from different agent host. MQ sensor support RDQ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Delivered

Support Tracing of Kong API Gateway

Instana currently does not support Kong Tracing. On our platform, the Kong API- gateway is a very central and important component. Hence, we'd like to see spans of Kong in our distributed traces.
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 2 Delivered

Provide Infra metrics for custom dashboard in Self-managed Dashboard

In the custom dashboard, Infra and Platform metrics is in "coming soon" status long time. My financial client can't adopt SaaS Instana because it is overseas region. Could you provide infra and platform capability also for the self-managed enviro...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Delivered

Tracing support for apache/IBM HTTPServer on windows platform

We have customer with core production using IBM HTTP Server on Windows 2016. Regarding IBM Instana documentation only Linux is supported for tracing: Supported Versions - Tracing Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x, on Linux x86_64. Apache HTTP Server 2.2.30...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Delivered

.NET Core and Framework Profiling on Windows

When developing software you sometimes run into memory leaks or high CPU that are difficult to explain. Profiling can help to identify the root cause so the issue can be solved. This feature already exist for Linux: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ins...
over 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 3 Delivered

RabbitMQ queue consumer count

Consumer count per queue is missing, its a critical metric for properly monitoring RabbitMQ and would be great to see next to the message counts.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Include multiple prometheus metrics(same type but from different envs) in one event.

There are about 50 kinds of prometheus metrics that we need to monitor for each env. When we use instana to create events for these metrics, we found that including multiple metrics in one event is not supported by either UI or API. That means eve...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure / SRE 2 Delivered

go-sensor: Stop losing traces during service startup

When services start up, it takes a while until the instana sensor is ready to handle traces and transmit them successfully. Currently, all traces for calls during that timeframe are lost (e.g. fetching configurations, roles, etc. from supporting m...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Go 3 Delivered

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