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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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Third party library stack traces

Having the source map integrated into instana is very helpful, however sometimes, the stack trace is not that clear, because the stack trace reported is related to a third party library, and in this case the mapping is not very helpful
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

Support for Grails in Application Monitoring & Tracing

Currently Grails application although running in the JVM can not be monitored on Application Monitoring mode.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Full support for Spring Integration framework within Java tracer

Currently, Spring Integration is not a fully supported framework. Some of the calls are supported, but not all.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Websites/More metrics in Page Load trace

Based on many comments received from customers we will value you consider adding the following key metrics in the page load trace of websites:OnLoadTimeDOM TimeFirst PaintFirst byte timeRequestResponse Thank you.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Allow customization of name for traceId value in Java MDC

Instana automatically populates the MDC with the trace ID. The MDC variable name is instana.trace.id. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-java-virtual-machine#logging-mdc-populated-with-the-t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Not under consideration

Agent configuration file should support more alternative solutions to hide clear text passwords than HashiCorp Vault.

Security teams in enterprise customers are not approving passwords to be stored in clear text format in agent configuration yaml file. According to the current documentation of Instana, only solution provided to this issue is HashiCorp Vault (http...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Not under consideration

Expose PHP FPM connectionResets metric

Currently it is not possible to add a custom event based on the connectionResets FPM metric. This would be important to us as the limits set by the default "Too many connections reset" FPM event are too low and we would like to customize it.
about 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration

Add directory / patch variable to one liner or silent agent installer

Please add the option to change the installation path of the agent when using the silent installer option, this is to allow us to automate installs using Ansible and apply our path standards that is required. It can be done on the GUI but we requi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Instrumentation for Spring Native

Please add support for Spring Native to Instana - all tracing and infrastructure monitoring, custom metrics (e.g. micrometer).
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 5 Not under consideration

Prompt user to login (two use cases)

Customer would like to be prompted to either login after an expired session in UI or when he is trying to do something that requires that he is logged in. Perhaps this could be configured with Session settings. The problem is UI lets users do a lo...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

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