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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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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

Dynamic threshold is not available for Error calls in Smart Alerts

The client wants to use the Beta Smart alert feature in Instana and observed the Dynamic Threshold featureis only applicable for Throughput and Slow Calls and they want the same feature to be enabled on Erroneous Calls Error and Warning Logs andHT...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Fire an alarm when the number of running servers are below minimum

Customer would want to create a custom event that will fire an alert when the number of running servers is below the minimum expected. Use case: They got 4 running different servers all the time that are autoscaling. This custom event would need t...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Allow wildcarding on custom event metrics specification

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring open ports of the server

What problems / use-cases does the customer need to solve: The customer wants to check some ports which are not acting as an endpoint(which is not giving any response/ giving an error response ) with Linux netstat command in Synthetic Check.
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Tensorflow-serving support (orig. ticket title "multiple autotrace plugins")

Customer need Tensorflow-serving support.
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Support for MicroFocus Cobol application (tracing/monitoring)

A combination running on OpenShift // PodMan (no docker) // MicroFocus Cobol
almost 4 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Options for adding Fargate instrumentation without rebuilding application container

The customer would like an alternative option for being able to add instrumentation to their java applications without rebuilding their app container. Usually the only updates required for this application are updates to keys and certs which don't...
almost 4 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Ability to alert on % K8 deployment memory limit/requests instead of static byte value

Ability to alert on % memory limit/requests instead of static byte value.This applies to: nodepodnamespacedeployment cpu & memory limitscpu & memory requests
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

POC-arlo - calls per minute diplayed on AP regardless of time window

No description provided
about 4 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration