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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?

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make rate of two custom events alertable

Currently we are able to create eg. smart alerts on a metrik over custom range of http between codes >= 400 and <= 500. But there is no way to relate that to another metrik e.g. custom range of http codes between >= 200 and < 400 as 'g...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 2 Needs more information

Correlation Between AWS RDS and AWS Lambda Native Tracing

We propose an enhancement in Instana to improve the correlation between AWS RDS databases and services detected by AWS Lambda Native Tracing. Currently, we experience a lack of visibility and correlation between these components, which impacts our...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Attach event payload to resolve events for PagerDuty integration

Events sent via the Instana-PagerDuty integration can be routed to different alerting services inside PagerDuty based on rules triggered by certain payloads. Instana alert trigger events include this payload but resolve events do not. This means t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release

Integration to load testing tools like Radview WebLOAD

We see some companies use load testing tools that integrate with our competitors such as Dynatrace. An example is WebLOAD from Radview. Can we provide an integration to load testing tools? Its a common problem when we install instana at a POC that...
7 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 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
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 4 Not under consideration

Logs of span rate limiting should be write in INFO level in agent.log to detect it worked.

Instana manual explains as following; > If you see logs like Suppressed spans due to high number of short or Discarded span due to queue overflow in the agent log, it means that the Java tracer experienced heavy load on span processing. The des...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 2 Planned for future release

Need databases names as services

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors self written application which connects to local database. We had permission issue which caused to create separate service instance for every database from received calls and customer liked the presentation. ...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Add authentication capabilities to eum-acceptor download GeoLite2 DB from sources with authentication.

Dear colleagues, Our customer was trying to associate EUM transaction with geographical location while using self-hosted Instana. We can specify the location of GeoLite2 DB by setting the location in Instana core manifest, but there is no way to s...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review