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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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The time range of the link in event closure mail should be set according to the end date/time, not start date/time

If user click the link of the closure mail of the event, it looked like the event is still active, and the icon is red. This is because the time range of the link is:From: event start date/time - 5 minsTo: event start date/time + 5 mins But we thi...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

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).
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

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

Instana needs to send notifications/alerts when active directory certificates expire in OpenShift on Z

Without this notification, it's a manual effort to keep checking for expired certificates
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Synthetic 1 Submitted

create API token for particular Application Perspective.

Requirement is ability to restrict API tokens which we create in Instana UI to a specific deployment/namespace in k8. For example: If we use a token for 1 deployment we should be able to check or retrieve data only for that particular deployment. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Under review

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if Transport has failed

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if Transport has failed
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review

SAP ABAP Sensor - Display RFC Connection Errors

SAP ABAP Sensor - Display RFC Connection Errors
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

Oracle DB Sensor - Generate Event for Archive Log Backup

Oracle DB Sensor - Generate Event for Archive Log Backup
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review

Oracle DB Sensor - Display built in Events for DBA Jobs

Oracle DB Sensor - Display built in Events for DBA Jobs
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review

Oracle DB Sensor - Show Disk Used Percentage

Oracle DB Sensor - Show Disk Used Percentage
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review