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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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Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
28 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Submitted

Custom event for disk status

Customer is looking to replace existing tool with Instana for IBM i monitoring. They are currently using an event trigger when disk is not found which is not currently possible with Instana. This request is to support custom event wherein customer...
3 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Monitoring python applications running on Windows hosts in Instana

Hi Instana Team, As a user who relies on Python applications running in a Windows environment, I wanted to highlight the current limitations with the instana.collector.helpers.runtime module due to its dependency on the Unix-specific resource libr...
3 days ago in Instana / Python 0 Submitted

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
3 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Document instana agent log error message meaning, criticallity and potential resolution

Agent logs in our production and preproduction env are collected centrally in our logging plattform, but currently we cannot interpret message meaning and criticallity as needed for enterprise operation of our vending platform.
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Enhancement of Quick Filters to display more than 150 recent entities

Currently Quick Filters has a limitation of the entities which shows 150 recently viewed items. This makes some of them invisible unless the name will be used un the search.
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Submitted

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
23 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
16 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
30 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted