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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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Smart Alert - grouping/summary/templates

A function of other APMs that I've used is the concepts of summaries and group alert copy or alert templates. Summaries - In cases, when memory, CPU and or filesystems alert they do so together which is a single event. With a summary structure, wh...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Smart alerts should have a severity placeholder

With build " 1.282.1064" the smart alerts got a very useful ability to have warning and critical thresholds defined on a single smart alert. This was a welcomed change and reduce our planned alert set by half. However, we were also expecting to be...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1

Expansions of Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Decouple the smart alert title with the subject of the resulting email. Currently with the title and subject line being the same, the display for smart alerts shows the placeholders which have no real meaning in the context of smart alert listings.
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Insana Alerting - JS errors based on error rate while using multiple filter conditions

We are trying to do alerting for JS errors based on error rate as the metric is available within alerting scope, but it's not working as expected. When applying different filter expressions within our JS alerting scope, the error rate metric isn't...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

Custom Event multiple conditions

This is a follow up to Aha Idea 729 which requested multiple conditions on a custom event. This is now available. However, it does not address our Use Cases, primarily as ita) It only allows multiple conditions on a single Entity typeb) only allow...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Instana should support Graviton based machines and applications deployed on them

Instana should support Graviton based machines and applications deployed on EC2 and EKS. Support is need for applications written using GoLang, Nodejs, .net core, java. We also need support for opentel.
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Functionality already exists

Enable collection of service flow metrics on service relation

As a monitoring org for sales distribution platform with complex distributed service architecture we need metrics like eg. latency, calls, error-rate for caller-callee service relation as opposed to existing application service flow map where metr...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

instana to support monitoring of Axway and Solace

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.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

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...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Deploy different instana-agent.customresource.yaml in k8s worker nodes

Hi, Based on the fact that not all the worker nodes run the same applications and ca be different between each others, it can be needed yo deploy different configuration.yaml files based on the needs. For example, put some custom tags inside some ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration