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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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EUM Geography granular representation

We have a custom GeoDB Database that provides detailed geo location for each request from the EUM and mobile apps configured. These include longitude and latitude coordinates (just like Maxmind's GeoLite2 database), as well as finely granular name...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Capgemini needs to monitor their applications running on Microsoft PowerFX (no code/low code programming)

I am working with a client named Capgemini that needs visiblity on their z-hybrid applications. During our scoping session we discovered their developers develop applications via Microsoft PowerFX (no code/low code programming) which sits on top o...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Report offset lag for kafka consumers

I created a library/custom utility that monitors the kafka consumers and records the offset lags across our event driven architecture. It is further integrated with LogDNA and slack which helps to send alerts to the squads for any offset lags in a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana should warn when a cluster or node is unscheduleable due to pod limits

In the OCP Console, there is a warning when a nodes node's available resources are exceeded by the limits of the running workloads, making the node unschedulable. Right now it is possible to show on a custom dashboard that the limits/available is ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to identify the requesting IP-Address when using Java-Tracing ( Tomcat/WebLogic etc.)

As described in the title, it would be extremly helpful for our customer if he could correlate traces captured by Instana with the IP-Address of the requesting client. The functionality would be most useful if it was implemented just like with the...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Permission: Seperate permissions / introduce new permission for Service endpoint configuration

Currently "Service and Endpoint Mapping" permission is keeping global permissions to custom service rule and synthetic endpoints. We bellive that service endpoint configuration should be done by users for their services while global permission sho...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Rate Function without the mean over time

A customer is using Instana Dashboard to display Prometheus metrics and using the Mean and Rate function. The calculation of the Rate function returns the difference divided by the time period. The customers idea is to have an option or the metric...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Find Kubernetes entities if the end time is greater than the entity lifetime

At the moment one can find an entity (e.g. Kubernetes Deployment) if the start time is earlier than the entity creation time but it is not possible to find an entity if the selected end time in the UI is later than the entity deletion/termination/...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Support Apache Httpd for servers with PowerPC 64 bits little endian (ppc64le) architecture

Hi, Financiera Efectiva has some servers running on Power PC 64 little endian architecture. Currently, Instana doesn't support this architecture. Please your support for enabling the tracing module and tracing library to trace all the request. Reg...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Planned for future release

Openshift's S2I Python Apps Trace

The customer wants to trace Python applications which are built by Openshift's S2I method by using Instana's Python Autotrace Webhook. However, this feature could be used with a workaround solution by adding "INSTANA_AUTOTRACE_USE_LIB_INSTANA_INIT...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Python 1 Not under consideration