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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 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 ...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Can you setup an alert on the network time and self time

Can you setup an alert on the network time and self time Attached screenshot for the reference Thanks Vasu
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

Request for New Feature in IBM Instana - Monitoring and Alerting of IBMi Job Status

I would like to propose a new feature for IBM Instana that would significantly enhance its monitoring capabilities for IBMi systems. Currently, there is no direct mechanism to monitor and alert based on the status of jobs running on IBMi environme...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Need to be able to assign tags to an integration node

Currently, tags can only be assigned to a Host or to some specific sensors such as MQ. Customers have a need to use tags for filtering, thresholding, etc. using tags for other sensors. Specifically, this customer needs to be able to use tags on an...
4 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Use custom headers to map dependencies

At Capitec, we have a custom header which we are already including in our transactions: x-capitec-correlation-id. We have enabled our agents to capture this header and we are making us of it in the transactions analytics section where we set a fil...
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

Response Time For User Actions

We are using Instana to monitor for our web application availability, performances etc. We would like to have a way to get the processing time or response time for each user actions done on the application. For example: When the user login to the ...
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

keep infrastructure metric history on activation of beeInstana

Please refere to TS015999019 Missing his torical Data after migration to beeinstana
4 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Future consideration

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