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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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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

POC-arlo - calls per minute diplayed on AP regardless of time window

No description provided
about 4 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Toggle to enable release pop-ups from appearing

Release pop-up notifications are not optional and since they are currently global they can be very frequent. It would be good to have the option for users to control whether or not they appear. "As an Instana user I would like the ability to turn ...
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Detecting Instana Agents not reporting data

No description provided
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Functionality already exists

Instrumentation support for RocksDB JNI 5.18.3

Customer is using Java Wildfly Application which through JNI connects to RocksDB.They are using Kafka States Stores.
over 4 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Support for instrumenting mobile apps developed with Xamarin

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Prevent an agent with a valid key from connecting to Instana

The customer requested an ability to centrally prevent a specific agent from connecting. "The customer would like to be able to prevent a specific host from connecting to Instana so that they can prevent unwanted use of the agent key or an unwante...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration