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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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Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
over 1 year ago in Instana / Python 5 Planned for future release

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Future consideration

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Web/App End User Monitoring: Custom Metrics: Enable Alerts Based on Actual Metric Values, Instead of Only Count of Custom Metrics

In our Website Monitoring using the INEUM SDK, custom metrics are recorded and correctly displayed on default dashboards. However, when configuring smart alerts, we are restricted to using only the count of custom metric events. We cannot create a...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 2 Planned for future release

Azure Storage Accounts Metrics Missing

When monitoring Azure File Shares with Azure storage accounts and their metrics in Instana, there are missing metrics for monitoring Used Capacity. It's available in Azure metrics and most usefull of them all. But in Instana that is not available ...
3 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Need to automatically detect and bypass older and unsupported .NET applications

We are deploying the Agent into a Windows .NET environment. The server has a mixture of older IIS Hosted .NET 4.0 applications, .NET 4.5 and newer, and .NET core applications. Instana is attempting to auto-instrument the .NET 4.0 applications and ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

Monitor for port status 'Listening'/'Non-Listening'

We want to monitor for ports on IBMi. Currently the port monitoring is not available to check if a port is listening or not. Currently it only monitors for 'Connection Established status' on the monitored port. But if port is not listening at all ...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories. Want capabilities that are similar to ITM v6. Customers use this capability to indicate whether their applications are performing properly. For example, if there are too many fi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 1