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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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Support sensor for enterprisedb (EDB)

EnterpriseDB (EDB) is IBM's strategic direction for Postgresql databases. Many IBM solutions including watsonx, IBM Cloud Paks/Foundational Services, and more will be using EDB going forward. EDB is also a strategic direction for IBM as we are an ...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Future consideration

Export and Import custom dashboard data

Hi team, Custom dashboards are becoming more popular with our internal and external customers, and one of the current needs is able to export and import custom dashboard data. For example, we have a bunch of JSON files and to import them we need t...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Selective access to logs

Similar to Applications, Infrastructure, etc. It should be possible to restrict access to logs based on specific criteria. Ideally logs would be filtered according to permissions on Applications + Infrastructure. Additionally It'd be great to eith...
10 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Selective discovery of Prometheus sensor in Kubernetes Clusters

When deploying the Prometheus sensor to Kubernetes it tries to discover prometheus metrics endpoints from every service. This can lead to increased load and logs created by services that do not provide fitting metrics endpoints. When deploying the...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Future consideration

AWS Lambda "invoke" instrumentation

Hello, Recently we have been trying to add our AWS Lambdas to our instana monitoring. We successfully added the node package where it was needed and got good results on lambda call via Messaging (like SQS) or Api Gateways. But we have a problem wh...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Citrix Hypervisor Monitoring

Thinking if a sensor could be able to consume RRDsCustomers can monitor the performance of their Citrix Hypervisor servers and Virtual Machines (VMs) using the metrics exposed through Round Robin Databases (RRDs). Here is the link for details: htt...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

add cgroups v2 PSI metrics to Instana

With the cgroupv2 starting to emerge maybe is a good idea to start collecting and using the PSI metrics available in machines/containers that enabled cgroupsv2. They are valid for Servers and containers. You can find details here about the PSI met...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration