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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 Dashboard "Application Health" widget

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in Instana 3

Ability to connect Prometheus endpoint to applicable Instana entity

When collecting Prometheus Endpoints within Application pods all "prom applications" are listed on the host level. This isn't practible as it is not feasible to link them anyhow to the entity (in this case the pod).
almost 4 years ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

Allow wildcarding on custom event metrics specification

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

An option to group calls based on Percentile view in dashboards

The customer would like to have an option to group calls based on Percentile view in dashboard.Business Use CaseIt will be a nice observability feature to have in dashboards to show the calls trend based on percentile view this gives a clear pictu...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Functionality already exists

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

"number of restarts" as timeseries metric for K8s sensor

The priority for The customer is to get rid of prometheus  and move those infra structure related alarms to Instana. One popular subset / category is alert/alarm when PODs are restarting to avoid potential transnational issues.Example if POD ...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

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...
about 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
about 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration