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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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Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
about 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Monitor Disk I/O latency metrics

Currently, we don't show metrics related to Disk Latency. We don’t collect I/O latency related operations. This would be needed for business purposes.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release

SLO based alerts

We think it should be possible to create alerts based on defined SLIs and SLOs. Currently, it's not possible to alert if something is consuming an available error budget too fast over a certain time or that we consumed the error budget already com...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
19 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
19 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
25 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Latency Alerts in http requests in Mobile Apps perpective

We believe that adding latency alerts in Instana's mobile app dashboard would significantly enhance our monitoring capabilities. Currently, while we can observe the latency of Android app calls, we are unable to create smart alerts based on this m...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Submitted