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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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Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Not under consideration

Get Request Payload and Header details for calls not visible in analyze

We would like to view details for the request payload and headers for api/endpoint in the analytics page. This would help in analyzing the request payload and troubleshooting of failures for api's.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Functionality already exists

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

ITM LO agent dedup feature integrated with Instana

We have integrated ITM LO agent to forward the events to Instana agent; however, we found that the deduplication feature that the LO agent has is not integrated with Instana. For example, in ITM, we can dedup based on the Key attributes such as Cu...
4 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Future consideration

Grafana plugin: Support dashboard variables in query and metric field

Hello, I would like to use grafana dashboard variables inside query and metric fields. That way I would have only one dashboard in which I could show metrics for different applications by changing variable in dropdown. Best regards, ldrascic
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 4 Not under consideration

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
6 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

Adding proxy configuration in Instana Sensor for AZURE

We need to use a proxy definition to reach Azure from the Instana agent on which there is a Instana cloud service agents In the AWS conguration is possible to specify a proxy We need the same option for AZURE In the INSTANA documentation To config...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ability to customize built-in rules

Ability to customize built-in rules
over 2 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration