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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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Request for Native Support for PHP Applications on Azure App Service

Dear Instana Team, We would like to request native support for Azure App Service running PHP applications. Our current workaround involves installing the Instana agent in the startup script as a Linux agent. This approach is not convenient for our...
6 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 Future consideration

Adding "Call Name" and "HTTP URL" as group options in the "Analytics > Applications > Traces" view.

In the "Analytics > Applications > Calls" view, we understand that there are many group options, such as by "Call Name" or "HTTP URL." However, the customer has requested that similar group options be available on a per-trace basis as well. ...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 7 Planned for future release

Unique names for views

Hi Team, when creating views on the navigation pane, can a customer prevent duplicate naming, especially for common use views (like Team Backlog, for example). Are there any mashups or solutions that would help with that?
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Not under consideration

Ability to filter on memo data types in ITP

Add the ability to filter on "memo" data types
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Extend AIOPS Vmware VCenter Observer to support merging of VM resources with VM resources coming from Instana Observer

Currently VMware vCenter Observer build the VM resource in AIOPS/Toplogy Manager where its name property is set to a value that we can not use to merge the same VM resource observed and populated in Topology manager by Instana Observer. Hence we n...
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

API of Tracing

When a service or endpoint alarm occurs, we need to obtain the corresponding trace details through the API, but currently Instana does not have this API. Traversing all traces is time-consuming. It is recommended to add this API
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

iOs with Netfox library

We propose that Instana consider supporting the NetFox library for iOS applications. This would involve ensuring that Instana's monitoring capabilities can work seamlessly alongside NetFox without causing conflicts or errors in the application's o...
11 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Show all out of box Project attributes in IIP

Currently, the only Project attribute fields you can show via Show/Hide columns in the expense view for IIP is Code, Name, and Project Group. Customers need the ability to view all associated attributes that are out of the box like Description, Pr...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Edit access to Planning Application in Access Administration

As being provisioned as a user I would like to go into planning and edit a users cost object permissions and then edit the visibility to remove planning from their view.  The ultimate goal is to view planning data in ApptioBI but not have acc...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Under review

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release