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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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Metric to see inflight request in each service

How to measure inflight request in each service? Number of request processed by application or service at any point in time. This is not same as request per second. An application may get many request at a time. In that how many are actually being...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Request to display total number virtual logical processors in Instana dashboard when Windows Server 2019 has more than 64 cores assigned.

Windows 2019 Operating system's native applications such as Task Manager can manage and maintain to show more than 64 logical processors. Instana currently lacks ability to display total number of virtual processors assigned to Windows Server 2019...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Displaying Incorrect Assigned Virtual Cores in Instana Dashboard for Windows Server 2019

Problem Statement: The Instana Dashboard does not display the full number of virtual cores assigned to Windows Server 2019 virtual machines due to a design limitation. This creates a discrepancy in monitoring data for Windows 2019 OS, which impact...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume and Persistent Volume Claim built-in metrics and Events

Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume (PV) and Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) built-in metrics and Events. PV/PVC metrics are essential to monitoring applications storge, however, Instana doesn't provide built-in metrics nor Events to cover the stor...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 2 Not under consideration

Improve Percentage Calculation in Big Number Widget

We need the Big Number widget to accurately calculate and display percentages for metrics like users or sessions affected by crashes or errors. Currently, selecting the percentage option simply multiplies the number by 100, rather than calculating...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Grafana Instana Plugin dashboard features

We have integrated the Instana with Grafana for dashboarding and have observed that some of the below features are missing which will help in creating better dashboards for customers. 1) TopN - To show the top N Utilized nodes 2) Option to filter ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

slow calls detection

some of our teams are using mendix and we noticed that even thoug we can list the calls with different metrics we cant see how long the actual activity took unless we click on the calls one by one. we should be listing the calls by the activity ti...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Service Configuration

Exclude URL’s Mute requests (Still monitor request but don’t alert)
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Needs more information

Easy threshold management

We can’t configure built-in events. Threshold management for every individual service/host. the configuration can be done for services and hosts as well because the operational cost is too high at the moment
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted