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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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Add support for Azure Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Instana

Add observability capability to Dynamics 365 to extend visibility into workloads running on that Azure service. That would enable an end-to-end traces accessing that service. That capability would be useful for all customers that are using Dynamic...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana

Want the ability to bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana. Some of our competitors have solutions that have out of the box dashboards for specific GCP services. But, they also provide the ability to specify a configuration to bring in metrics from ...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

verify IIS credential on agent setup or show missing credential in agent log

When Installing and running agent on a Windows host hosting IIS, the agent seems read the content of the application pool and site with the local admin right.if local admin rights is removed from the user that run the app pool Instana wont be able...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

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...
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...
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...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

ISM protocols in Instana

We would like to add ISM functionalities from the ISM agent (ITM and APM) to the Instana. It is necessary for us to have these functionalities so we can propose to our current customers to transfer from the ITM/APM solutions to Instana. Several of...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Future consideration

EUM Crash Reporting - Limit or disable sending crash report

We have currently roughly 10 M app user and want to use crash reporting funtionality.In this cause we are looking for a way to limit or deact end-user to send crash reporting e.g. by config, to limit overload of network and protect instana backend...
4 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 4 Not under consideration

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Need provide appropriate solution for EUM to collect data using gateway

Dear colleagues, following the Standard Instana deployment instructions in the dashboard to set EUM monitoring doesn't allow to determine IP Address because Instana gateway configuration doesn't have proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; config...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review