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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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Instana should support Graviton based machines and applications deployed on them

Instana should support Graviton based machines and applications deployed on EC2 and EKS. Support is need for applications written using GoLang, Nodejs, .net core, java. We also need support for opentel.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Submitted

Enable collection of service flow metrics on service relation

As a monitoring org for sales distribution platform with complex distributed service architecture we need metrics like eg. latency, calls, error-rate for caller-callee service relation as opposed to existing application service flow map where metr...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Instana Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud (OCI)

I'm looking for a Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud like Instana one for Azure or AWS in order to be able to observe the services we are using: Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) Data Catalog Integration Cloud (OIC) Gen ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Be able to monitor the windows process which doesn't have CommandLine attribute

Instana host sensor provide the ability to monitor the custom process via com.instana.plugin.process in configuration.yaml, however, there is limitation in windows platform. Host Sensor on Windows is comparing the string you specify in the configu...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Monitoring Forked Processes in PHP

Description: We would like to propose the addition of functionality to monitor forked processes in PHP. Currently, there are monitoring tools available for PHP, but there is a lack of capability to monitor specifically forked processes. This is pa...
5 months ago in Instana / PHP 2 Planned for future release

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
about 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Needs more information

Have ability to set scope as per endpoint for adaptive threshold type

We have observed that when threshold type is adaptive the scope cannot be set to per endpoint, however the option is available when threshold type is static. Need this feature to be available in Instana as it is supported in AppDynamics. This will...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 7 Not under consideration

Enable to exclude entities from built-in events by DFQ (Dynamic Focus Query)

Users cannot configure any conditions of built-in events. However in some cases, built-in event could be opened even though it is not harmful. Users would be happy if you can exclude entities from built-in events by using (single or sometimes mult...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration