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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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Arithmetic operations on dashboard widgets

The customer wants to be able to create a widget using simple operations (x % / + -...).One of the use cases is creating the widget displaying the count per minute so they have to divide the average by 60 which is not yet possible.
over 3 years ago in Instana 2 Planned for future release

SSO and Groups

The idea would be that we configure the dedicated groups in AD and assign them to the corresponding users. Instana would have to use the group provided in the SAML request and map the user to the group within Instana.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

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

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.
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

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