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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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Consideration of Table View for OTel Attribute Display

A customer has suggested shifting from the current JSON view to a table view for displaying attributes in OTel, citing issues with key visibility in small browser windows. While the JSON format currently handles long resource attributes more effec...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Needs more information

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
12 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Disabling instrumentation for a specific pod and jdbc connection

Hi, We request you the possibility to disable tracing for an specific pod or for any specific jdbc connection. Right now the only wat to disable tracing for a pod is by doing ignore processes. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Support for AWS Cognito User Pool Identity Provider (IdP)

We are in discussion with potential customers that want support for AWS Congnito User Pools. We already support several IdPs and this is a very popular one we currently don't support. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/cogni...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

'Current Transfers' does not match time span

For MFT, if you change the time span on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard the 'Transfer Statistics' chart is updated with the new time span. For the 'Current Transfers' table this does not happen, and it will only show the tran...
9 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Alert Audit Log, basically a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, which channel, what payload, etc…

We would like to ask for a feature to allow for Alerts to be protocolled and saved (kind of an Alert Audit Log). Basically, a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, what payload, etc…Website and Applications use Smart Alerts. I ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

License expiration notification should be configurable

Currently, all users accessing Instana will get a notification that the license is about to expire 30 days prior to license end date. This notification should be configurable, allowing admins to enable and configure it. Configuration of who gets t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to specifically filter traces by values of "Self Time" /Network Time/ Waiting time

As stated in the title, having the possibility to group and filter by "Self Time" /Network Time/ Waiting time would be extremely helpful to troubleshoot if the network got worse etc.
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review