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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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Allow label mapping in analytics or custom dashboards

Example use: Visualizaton of kubernetes metrics e.g. for resource_limits
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Functionality already exists

Supports edge devices utilize Microshift

We believe that 5G will increase observability requirements for edge devices.We hope that K3s, of course, will support Red Hat's Microshift before competing products to gain an advantage.
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists

Allow capability to change TimeZone

Please allow capability to change the timezone. We have multiple teams globally and each of them see instana which shows time in their own timezone.But while reviewing together, most of the time we want to change it to one timezone, say EST so tha...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Functionality already exists

Instana is really good at monitoring as observability of Kubernetes. But its capability is only focusing on Pod as Kubernetes deployment not as K8S CronJob that is so different.

Instana has plenty of built-in Events for Kubernetes Monitoring. However, some built-in events only suit Pods as Kubernetes deployment, not Pods as CronJob.Instana built-in Event : "Kubernetes Pod condition status" generates Critical Issue in the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Manage configuration.yaml with Secret

We would like to monitor EDB Postgres for Kubernetes on Instana. As a prerequisite, Instana runs only agents in SaaS deployment format in an OpenShift environment. EDB Postgres for Kubernetes runs in the same OpenShift environment. Referring ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Allow report export on Events data

As an SRE, I want the data from Instana when looking for Incidents (Event Tab) to be exported automatically and not just being queried inside Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Extend Custom Dashboard (Widget) capabilities

Customers, time and time again, are looking for a way to chart specific information on a custom dashboard. This allows them to quickly extract data that Instana is already capturing and review in one place, then drill down from there. For this cus...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Functionality already exists

Give Teams option to hide their services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Deny-listing)

Give Teams option to hide there services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Blacklisting) Futher improving the granularity of the RBAC in Instana
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Add functionality to retrieve the Instana agent configuration file content in the Instana Agent UI

When troubleshooting Instana agent configurations then it is necessary to have SSH access to the host or Kubernetes cluster. If the UI had this feature then I could get the configuration file with a click of a button which would speeds up troubles...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists