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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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improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

COPA OA: Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. 

Dashboard templates Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. The standard out-of-box dashboards show a dump of all metrics. Curated dashboard templates for use cases that can be activ...
3 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Under review

COPA OA: Flexible dashboarding for metric correlation needed

Need ability to study correlated metrics. For example, how is the CPU and disk usage behaving with user load? How is garbage collection affecting response times? Comparison of different metrics on the fly is available in ITCAM that is not availabl...
3 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Under review

Adding additional filter to Analytics Infrastructure view

We have two cassandra clusters with the same name (apm_cassandra) but in different openshift clusters. Because the cluster name is the same, I'm unable to filter out the specific one I'm interested in under Analyze Infrastructure -> Cassandra C...
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Kubernetes 2 Under review

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
7 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Under review

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
22 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Granular breakdown of data ingested from Infrastructure

There is evidence of data ingestion at a general level, but it is not possible to discriminate which host, metric or application is generating the highest consumption. This request goes in two ways:1. To have a report or dashboard that shows how t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instana's custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

iSeries servers availability monitoring

iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario.1. Server down2. Password expired3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review