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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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LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Needs more information

Monitor subjobs

To be able to monitor subjobs. For example in the bank end of day process, the main job will have many subjobs. In this case the user of the subjobs can be the same with the user of the main jobs, but the jobName and jobNumber for the subjobs can ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
7 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Needs more information

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Needs more information

Google Cloud Service Mesh Support request

GKE provides Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE, which is google managed version of Istio. Now Instana already supports Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, but not Google Cloud Service Mesh yet. We used this Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE and reques...
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Planned for future release

Document instana agent log error message meaning, criticallity and potential resolution

Agent logs in our production and preproduction env are collected centrally in our logging plattform, but currently we cannot interpret message meaning and criticallity as needed for enterprise operation of our vending platform.
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration