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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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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Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Add kubernetes pod emphemeral storage usage as metric

Hi all, When monitoring critical k8s deployments which have an ephemeral storage limit defined, it is essential to actively keep track on the current usage and get an alert once the limit is nearly reached. It might be possible to get these metric...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

On the Application Dashboard, Provide Total Wait (Latency x Calls) in the dashboards. This would definitely could be added to the top services widget.

The App Dashboard doesn't really let you know what is the busiest service or endpoint that has the most wait. The calls let you know it's busy, but you don't know if it's a problem because it could be a really fast cached call. The latency is good...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

instana to support monitoring of Axway

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Built in event to alert for Windows service not running

Currently, built in events only support for process monitoring. However certain Windows processes such as IIS workers run in the background during periods of inactivity and start backup once corresponding .NET application receives traffic. Alertin...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Security Vulnerability Management

Hello, It is very important to have a unified security insights & compliance dashboard and vulnerability management capabilities consolidated within the Instana APM / Observability solution. Besides application performance monitoring and proac...
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations / Security and Compliance 0 Planned for future release

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation.

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation. This scenario is potentially very usefull for customer (it has on-prem installation).
about 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Planned for future release

AzureApp service

As we could see, your Azure App Services are discovered and we are able to see the metrics. You were missing the tracing so we did the troubleshooting for that. We could see that our InstanaProfiler is in place and after checking the logs, there a...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Is a defect

Needs to add Cluster Storage Drive Data in Instana

Team, our Dell S2D platform Cluster Storage information is not reported in Instana portal. Instana only reporting the specific Node native drives but not the cluster volumes.
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Is it possible to get an alert when a VM is live migrated in Azure

Is it possible to get alerts from Instana when VM is live migrated in Azure (Microsoft Alerts are inconsistent)
about 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 2 Future consideration