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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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Custom dashboards metric selection improvements in the legend / tooltip

A couple of requests from the customer for enhancing the colors on Custom Dashboards:* Colors palette should stay stable: Currently a refresh in live mode can return a new color for existing metric lines.* Re-use colors across widgets: If a metric...
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Instana Agent should only bind to port 42699 on select private interfaces

We would like to stop the Docker agent from listening on port 42699.
over 3 years ago in Instana 2 Not under consideration

define specific tmp folder

The client request the possibility to redefine the location of the temporary files. Use case:https://www.instana.com/docs/setup_and_manage/host_agent/on/linux/#temporary-files states that the location for temporary files is /tmp/.instana .As ...
over 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Mapping of MySQL in Application Perspective - Service Naming Rules

my idea would be to create a service mapping like this:
{
"tagFilterExpression": {
"type": "TAG_FILTER" 
"name": "call.http.host" 
"value": "" 
"operator": "EQUALS" 
"entity": "NOT_APPLICABLE"
} 
"unmonitoredServiceName": "MySQL_" 
"description": ...
over 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Scope of the Smart alert are not based on Individual endpoints

trying to group alerts based on individual endpoints
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Removal of temporary files

I have the following feature request:1. if the Instana agent is stopped it should remove its temporary files2. If the Instana agent is started it should remove old temporary files. This can happen if the Instana agent has previously not stopped co...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Live SLI on Grafana

I am creating this Feature Request for our Customer. They want to have live SLI on Grafana as this is important for them.
over 3 years ago in Instana 0

Alerts/Events details download option in Incident page CSV/Excel

The client would like to have an option to download a list of triggered Alerts/Events via an excel/csv file based on an applied filter. Use-case:To do more analysis like frequent alerts max impacted services and etc.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Managing group permissions separate from group members via API

The client would like to propose a feature request for managing group permissions through the Instana API without always providing all group members.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Display number of Active Servers for a respective service against time-series chart

Customer would like to monitor their ASG based EC2 instances auto-scaling activity and they want a metric to plot in custom dashboards against the time-series chart. They have attached a reference image which they used to plot in their previous AP...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration