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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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Make the metrics for "max_metrics_reached" with the limit accessible for alerts

We hit the "max_metrics_reached" on one of our tenants on an agent and we had to reach out to support (TSo17688362) for assistance. Support requested a metric limit increase, which removed the message and allowed the agent to capture more metrics ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

threshould managenet for every individual service/host

the threshold management is not easy. we cant configure builtin events and we cant easily change the threshould for services we have to create a new event with new threshould also we cant create the builtin events with different threshoulds as well.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

I can see the AWS documenDB metrics in the infrastructure page however don't see any DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Services page

I can see the AWS documenDB metrics in the infrastructure page however don't see any DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Services page. So i request instana team to list DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Servi...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

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

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...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 2 Not under consideration

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

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Make release marker selection time based

In the cause of evaluation of usability of release marker information in ci/cd environment we found it would be extremly useful if release marker selection would also optionally timebased.Please note support ticket TS016695080 related.
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 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