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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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QREMOTE queue monitoring

The MQ Sensor does not discover remote queues (QREMOTE) from the configured queue managers. In Instana we miss information to replicate a situation from Tivoli Monitoring or Cloud APM. For example: queue depth,
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow blocking of entries to Agent Log File

Instana Agent Logs specifically for both Solaris and Windows OS that monitors our JBOSS platforms is showing the same error against all active PIDS. This is not seen in the Instana SaaS Dashboard for the AP or in the JBOSS logs, it is only within ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor / Tracing 1 Future consideration

able to have an option to change EUM reportingURL in snippet in the UI.

Currently in Instana K8s operator the AcceptorUrls seem to be solely based on the baseDomain. This is then used also in the UI in EUM Website Configuration in reportingUrl and script src, e.g.: <script> (function(s,t,a,n){s[t]||(s[t]=a,n=s[a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Ability to custom process name

All our process are named "java", notifications and event regarding the process (like "abnormal termination") are all refereeing to "java process"; I would like to have the possibility to custom it like we do for services.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Configure ACE Sensor to authenticate through LDAP

ACE RestAdminApi is configured to be accessed with LDAP authentication. While Instana is asking for local user. We need to be able to configure instana agent to access ACE using LDAP
over 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Future consideration

make @instana/aws-fargate working with Elastic search 6.X

Hi currently @instana/aws-fargate is not handling Elastic search 6.X Could you manage this ?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Node / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to monitor status pages of other tools and trigger events or query data from them

Add functionality to monitor status pages of other tools and trigger events or query data from them. Users will be able to keep an eye on all used thrid party services in one place.New Relic and other products also provide this service. See https:...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Process-Level Configuration for Prometheus Scraper in Instana Agent (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Summary: This idea outlines the essential need for a generic per-process configuration for scraping Prometheus data in Instana. The current missing of this feature limits Prometheus monitoring on Kubernetes and OpenShift; workarounds are causing u...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Config option to change the frequency of db requests

We are using the Instana Agent with the PostgreSQL sensor.With the log analyzer pgBadger and pg_stat_statements we noticed that the Instana sensor queries the database every other second which puts them on top of the most time consuming queries in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Latency Timings for PageTransistions

Instana monitors PageLoads and PageTransistions. For PageLoads we see Latency, Traffic, Errors. For PageTransision we also want to monitor Latency as it is available for for Page Loads. We want to have this metrics available for PageTransistions o...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration