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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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Trace Duration as Filter for Analytics and dashboards

For monitoring asynchronous systems like batch jobs, messaging it would be great to be able to filter requests based on the duration. Currently it is only possible for latency. Every Trace has this information.
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Unable to create events when DFQ entities are not monitored yet. Event creation fails instead it should issue a warning.

Issue: While creating events either via the API or from Instana user interface, Instana is not allowing to create the events where entities (referencing in the DFQ) are not yet present in the tenant unit. Below is the error message I got when an e...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Enhancing RabbitMQ monitoring by decoupling queue metrics from node affiliation or implementing automated metric udates once a queue is reloacted to a diffrent RabbitMQ node

For RabbitMQ in a multi-node environment, Instana message queue metrics are tied to specific nodes, causing issues when message queues are relocated to different nodes due to node failures. This leads to failed updates and no data representation i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana events do not support adding more than five metric conditions.

Some of the situations in my customers data is comprised of more than five conditions that Instana do not support today.I am working on ITM2Instana modernisation offering and we need to transform customer's ITM data into Instana e-g, situation (ev...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert / MQ 0 Not under consideration

View the JVM DB Connection Pool and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the idle DB Connection is below 10%)

I would like to monitor the Connection Pool that connects to the DB in a general JVM. I would also like to request that you add a function that can monitor the connection to the DB in JVM monitoring.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Under review

Ability to get the volume of purchased licences through Instana API

Hello, Currently, I' m able to get the number of active apmhost and infrahost per day with the api endpoint : /api/instana/usage/hosts/{day}/{month}/{year} ############# Usage : https://xxxxxxxxxxx.instana.io ############# [{'time': 1724544000000,...
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Need to mask portion of the request path url (Path Variable)

Need to mask portion of the request path url (Path Variable). for example : https://my.domain/accounts/324345/status want to mask the path variable - 324345
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration