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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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OS filters in mobile app in dashboard

- For Android, we have the list of device type. So it's impossible to filter by the version of Android (Android 14, Android 15, ...). - For iOS, we have only iOS or iPadOS. So it's impossible to filter by the version (iOS 15, 16, 17, ...).
9 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Prometheus complex queries in Custom Dashboards

Hi team, I want to use Prometheus complex queries in widgets, something like this: sum( avg(container_cpu_allocation) by (pod,node) * on (node) group_left() avg(avg_over_time(node_cpu_hourly_cost[10m])) by (node) * on (pod) group_left() label_repl...
9 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

A possibility to have fixed Time Range in a specific Custom Dashboard

For example: in the whole Instana UI by default the Time Range is set to ‘Last Hour’ but for the specific dashboard created by myself I want to have it set for ‘Last Month’ and when I will open it, I won’t need to change anything - the ‘default’ C...
29 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
22 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 3 Submitted

Monitor for port status 'Listening'/'Non-Listening'

We want to monitor for ports on IBMi. Currently the port monitoring is not available for if a port is listening or not. Current monitor only monitor for 'Connection Established status' on the monitored port. But if port is not listening at all we ...
23 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Instana observabiltiy console - grant access to specific vSphere Datacenter

We monitoring multiple vSphere Datacenters, but we would like have option to grant access to view them separtely, same like for Kubernetes view
13 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Additional data required while monitoring Oracle DB

Customer is interested to view more details while monitoring Oracle Databases using Instana. 1) SQL ID CPU Usage section shows all details except CPU Usage %. Also it would be useful to expand details about each Instana ID. 2) TOP CPU Consuming Se...
14 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Go to next/previous windows timerange

Hello, currently in Instana, we can select a predefined timerange (last 30min, last 1h, yesterday, etc.) or we can customize the timerange with year, month, day, hour, minutes. Once we have this selected, there is no option to automaticaly go to n...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted