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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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Gather Serilog data from serilog sink

Serilog uses sinks for writing log events to storage in various formats. Add option for instana to collect Serilog logs with sink to compete with Dynatrace, datadog and New Relic that do this today. This is a list of competitors that already have ...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Be able to monitor the windows process which doesn't have CommandLine attribute

Instana host sensor provide the ability to monitor the custom process via com.instana.plugin.process in configuration.yaml, however, there is limitation in windows platform. Host Sensor on Windows is comparing the string you specify in the configu...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Retention of JVM data after change in PID/ID

When an Application release, update/change, or outage occurs, all JVM data for the process ID running prior is lost in Instana. This has been confirmed as correct functionality within Instana through ticket "TS013919515" "It is expected behaviour ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Can you setup an alert on the network time and self time

Can you setup an alert on the network time and self time Attached screenshot for the reference Thanks Vasu
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Request for New Feature in IBM Instana - Monitoring and Alerting of IBMi Job Status

I would like to propose a new feature for IBM Instana that would significantly enhance its monitoring capabilities for IBMi systems. Currently, there is no direct mechanism to monitor and alert based on the status of jobs running on IBMi environme...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Enable to exclude entities from built-in events by DFQ (Dynamic Focus Query)

Users cannot configure any conditions of built-in events. However in some cases, built-in event could be opened even though it is not harmful. Users would be happy if you can exclude entities from built-in events by using (single or sometimes mult...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Integration DPOD - Instana

DPOD allows to see in depth what happens with the transactions on the datapower, instana does not have this functionality and it would be complementary to have this information at the application level, trying to have a complete end-to-end view.
7 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Instana supporting instrumentation of lambda functions using Terraform

As of now, Instana is not supporting AWS lambda functions using Terraform. Few teams in our agency using AWS lambda functions using Terraform and we need Instana instrumentation on these nodes.
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Export Config Data to CSV/XML Format As Well

Today, Instana API calls like ../api/events/settings/event-specifications/custom return data in JSON format only. Going forward potential enhancement options: 1) The U/I provides a way to export this sort of config data and allows it to be ex...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration