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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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Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Filter conditions should be private / shared by certain permissions

Instana users can "save, edit, and delete filters". https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-filtering-dynamic-focus And it is 'shared' with all users automatically. But if a customer plans to accept Instana corporat...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

we want to see the application pools as individuals applications

we dont want to see application pools, because we cannot make dashboards of the ones that are inside the application pool.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Enabling tracing on Azure API Management

Azure API Management is a hybrid multi-cloud platform to manage APIs in all environments, although today we have metrics on the solution already enabled are not enough to identify the transactions that go through the platform, for this reason it i...
3 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Mule ESB version 4.x

Currently, Instana can monitoring Monitoring Mule ESB version 3.x, however, version 3.x is already out of support: Ref: Instana -> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mule-esb Ref Mulesoft: -&...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

WebLogic - monitor Web deployments

We are using WebLogic servers. Recently we had an incident in which a web deployment was not loaded correctly. Currently it's not possible in Instana to alert when a web deployment is not loaded. A support ticket was made and they suggested to cre...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Grafana Data Source Alert Management

Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Publish version history for instana agent and k8sensor

When upgrading to a new version of the static instana agent we have no idea what changes there actually are in the new version. We would like to know what we're getting ourselves into, and to be able to chose whether to upgrade or not. Additionall...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

Generic Configuration-based SDK

Generic Configuration-based SDK When working with the Configuration-based SDK, customer wants to use each class-method pair under "sdk.targets" in a generic way, not individually. To summarize, Instead of this one: sdk: targets: - match: type: cla...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Planned for future release