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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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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

List of events that triggered alerts

It would be beneficial to be able to retrieve a list of all events that have triggered alerts within a specified time frame. Currently, there is no direct way to filter alerts based on which ones were triggered by what events. Adding this fe...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration

Adding metrics in Instana to monitor Transform Object for elastic search

Transform Object is one of the key components in elastic search. Currently Instana does not have any capability to monitor transform object.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Filter conditions should be private / shared by certain permissions

Instana users can "save, edit, and delete filters". https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-filtering-dynamic-focus And it is 'shared' with all users automatically. But if a customer plans to accept Instana corporat...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Integration with hashicorp Vault supported namespaces

A client uses namespaces in HashiCorp Vault, but namespaces are not supported for integration from the Instana agent, so the only option at the moment is to use the root in HashiCorp Vault which may result in a security observation as it would hav...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Deploying POP without the need for a Kubernetes cluster

We want to deploy a Synthetic Monitoring POP in a remote location in order to perform synthetic tests. The location does not provide a Kubernetes cluster of any flavour which blocks our use case. We would like to deploy a POP on an Android device ...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Kong Monitoring - Have a unified console page just like Kubernetes

For Kong monitoring, we currently have agents being monitored and this poses a great deal of work to figure out which agent among 100's of agents some clusters may have to know the metrics. Instead, Kong monitoring should be based on cluster level...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Add metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Make Instana Agent API available on IPV4

We have a use case where we remote monitoring a database and need to access the instana agent API to generate events/changes/incidents but the API port is only available to the localhost so we cannot access it remotely. Making the APi port availab...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Python 1 Planned for future release