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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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Migration feature should not be visible for all

Currently the Migration feature can be accessed by any user logged into Instana. I was able to test and reproduce this behaviour on a local On-Prem install by enabling the following feature flag: configMigrationFeatureEnabled Any user can then see...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Not under consideration

monitor and alert for kubernetes job failures

It would be a great value add to have the ability to monitor and alert for kubernetes job failures. Our system runs a few cronjob nightly and we currently have no way to alert when one of these kubernetes jobs fails.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Tracing support for Compute type message flow node

instana ace tracing supports MQ/HTTP node type, customer TrinaSolar is using lots of message flow nodes with Compute type when developing integreation applications. customer would like INSTANA can trace the http call handled by Compute node.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Not under consideration

Warning and Critical are two rules -> Must be correlatable

Warning and Critical are two rules -> Must be correlatable
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Add tags on every level of the landscape

Please add the ability to apply tags on every level, not just on hosts. So i.e. tag a Tomcat with a specific label or tag a java process as per desire.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Dependency map service locations

The map build up by Instana seems to shuffle the services around at random. Meaning if you are analysing the map and either it refreshes or you reload the page, the service can be somewhere else. This is confusing for users
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Alert notifications per user/team

Instead of defining integrations for Slack/Email, etc. a user, if affected for an alert, should be able to setup his preferred way of being contacted through a user profile alike approach. This is only relevant for alerting options having user acc...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

"tag prefixes" in infrastructure map

Suppose we have 3 agents with the following tags:agent1: app=shop1agent2: app=shop2agent3: app=shop1 + app=shop2When I open the InfraMap grouped by tag prefix “app=” I see two groups (shop1 and shop2) and the agent3 belongs to one of them – depend...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Tag prefix defintion for teams in RBAC avoiding uncontrolled growth in APs

To avoiding an uncontrolled growth in APs, we suggest to set tag-prefixes per team to allow an easy recognition and applying of naming convention for APs.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

use "Application Info" in filters

lot of application-related and other info is collected by Instana and e. g. shown in the sidebar of dashboards. Example: Is it anyhow possible to use such values in filters? Usecase: I want to get an overview about all springboot services that sti...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

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