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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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At ALSAC we make extensive use of NetBrain to monitor our Network. It would be great if we could bring that data into Instana to add additional context to incidents.

Including data from the network domain would enable us to see relevant context if we have issues in our infrastructure. If we could achieve this we feel that we could resolve some of our incidents more quickly
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

ALSAC would like to be able to monitor the SalesForce Cloud

We need to proactively monitor the SaleForce Cloud which is used extensively in ALSAC. We would like to be able to observe data such as (but not limited to): Logins and ip addresses related to them Data loads and deletions - unusual activity API A...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

View the usage of K8s PV(PersistentVolume) and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the PV usage exceeds 80%)

I want to monitor the usage of PV in Kubernetes and trigger an event when the usage exceeds a certain amount compared to the total usage. I would like to request the addition of this function.
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Functionality already exists

View and download the SUM/AVG of Pod's CPU/Memory usage based on K8s Namespace

The customer is checking the usage by Kubernetes namespace using "kubectl top pod -n namespace" and said that this function is essential. And they want to download the result of the command as an excel file, etc. They request that the following fu...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Update the email address from stan@instana to instana@instana.com

The email stan@instana.com is not service account and conflict with a user named Stan in the organization.
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Needs more information

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Enhancement of Instana with Historical Incident-Based GenAI-Powered Recommended Actions and Import Functionality

This request aims to enhance Instana by leveraging historical incident records(tickets) to enable Gen-AI-powered recommended actions.The goal is to import and analyze past incident response data to generate accurate and timely recommendations base...
2 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide more smart alert state controls

Smart Alerts have evaluation (frequency) and number of occurrences but does not have escalation past the warning to critical. State Shifts good - warning good - critical warning - critical warning - good critical - warning critical - good And the ...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Create Business Perspective per Process Application

When creating a new Perspective in the Business Monitoring capability of Instana I would like to be able to filter on Process Applications to be able to create a Perspective per Process Application. All business processes for that Process Applicat...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration