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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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Dynamic discovery of all Filesystems

We have observed that Instana agents auto discovers only local filesystems, for other filesystems we have to define them manually in the configuration yaml file which is tedious task and high chances of missing alerts for newly created filesystems...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Tagging, Management Zone (GUI)

We need to tag service/host/anyCI and show them under logical grouping. Easy filtering with tagging
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Baseline Anomaly - Failure Rate

There is no option of adoptive threshold for erroneous calls. Alternative %10 & %20 static threshold, too many alerts
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Automatic injection Configure via UI (Enable/Disable) Ignore browser version DZM data collector for internet apps these are the things we found rum is lacking at the moment. we are also using dynatrace so we usually compare instana with dynatrace ...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

• We can not create a custom event same same properties with built-in event.

Exp: CPU Steal Time exceeded – “Number of violations as a condition” property does not exist. we have to be able to recreate the builtin events so that we can create them using different threshoulds and such. some of the events does not meet our d...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

• Custom Service Detection

With a custom service detection, we need to create a custom service and monitor specifying class and methods. Instana is partially capable of doing it at the moment. however it requires to change the code itself and it is nearly impossible to do i...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

URL based parsing

We need to seperate URLs into logical service groups. Our monitoring capabilities are depending on this feature
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Service naming feature

We need to adapt monitored service names with our CMDB. So, we need to re-naming auto detected service, host, process names. Difficult usage: SDK, environment variable definition no regex rules, no separete service type (custom service)
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

exception ignore

We need to ignore some business exception and doesn’t mark as a fail and alert. because every operation has its own bussiness exceptions and sometime they can be ignored for a period of time.
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Tracing extra-http-headers, extra headers are not available for thresholding and dashboarding

When using Tracing extra-http-headers, the custom header information is not available for use within Smart Alerts or within Custom Dashboards. com.instana.tracing: extra-http-headers: Customers want to be able to use the extra header parameters as...
about 17 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted