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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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Add information for K8s/OCPs to the release notes in the Instana documentation

We are very pleased to see the release notes for Instana Agent/Sensor/Tracer being added.However, users of Instana with K8s/OCPs should also gather the following information. These can currently only be obtained from the individual githubs. YAML h...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

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

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
12 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

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

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Make release marker selection time based

In the cause of evaluation of usability of release marker information in ci/cd environment we found it would be extremly useful if release marker selection would also optionally timebased.Please note support ticket TS016695080 related.
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Add metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration