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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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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)
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Functionality already exists

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.
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Needs more information

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...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

No way to write thresholds against custom parameters configured via the "Configuration Based SDK"

If I use the Configuration Based SDK (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk), I can add custom information into the traces. That data can be visualized in the UI. But, there i...
5 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Oracle OpenTelemetry link to db.sqlid.value to open monitor in new window

- Configure a Global link on Opentelemetry data-field: Db.sqlid (might want to make it generic.) - Link opens a predefined link https://<link>/<db.sqlid.value > in a new window. When a user clicks the value to db.sqlid, it opens a new ...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Needs more information

Make the metrics for "max_metrics_reached" with the limit accessible for alerts

We hit the "max_metrics_reached" on one of our tenants on an agent and we had to reach out to support (TSo17688362) for assistance. Support requested a metric limit increase, which removed the message and allowed the agent to capture more metrics ...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

threshould managenet for every individual service/host

the threshold management is not easy. we cant configure builtin events and we cant easily change the threshould for services we have to create a new event with new threshould also we cant create the builtin events with different threshoulds as well.
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

I can see the AWS documenDB metrics in the infrastructure page however don't see any DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Services page

I can see the AWS documenDB metrics in the infrastructure page however don't see any DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Services page. So i request instana team to list DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Servi...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Alert for device discovery

When the devices were not being discovered properly the user is unable to find out until unless they are facing any issue. So, I'm thinking to have an alert for the device discovery, which helps to notify the user when the discovery was stuck. Thi...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Enhancement of Instana with Historical Incident-Based GenAI-Powered Recommended Actions and Import Functionality

This request aims to enhance Instana by leveraging historical incident records(tickets) to enable Gen-AI-powered recommended actions.The goal is to import and analyze past incident response data to generate accurate and timely recommendations base...
6 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration