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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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Provide a feature to Disable/Block the tracing of a few specific API calls from the EndUser monitoring

We have started using Instana EUM feature and found that it is tracing and tracking a lot of APIs calls to our feature flag service which we would like to disbale them from Instana. -Ashwin
8 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Instana Support for Ceph Quincy (v6) and Above

Title: Instana Support for Ceph Quincy (v6) and Above Detail: Instana's current support for monitoring Ceph covers the version Pacific and below. We are using Ceph version Quincy (v6) and we would like Instana to support this version and above. Th...
9 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Discovery and Zero-Code Instrumentation of C++ Applications

Title: Discovery and Zero-Code Instrumentation of C++ Applications Detail: Instana agent couldn't able to do both discover and instrument the applications written in C++ with .NET Framework. We would like to discover and instrument these kind of a...
9 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Business Monitoring: adding a limited access to the user of a group for particular business processes

The customer Iveco wants that some users can see some business processes and other users can see other business processed. More or less we sould have a "limited acess" radio button in the group configuration like the application perspective.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Planned for future release

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
24 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

dns name configurable

Instana standard editon need DNS entries with subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing All entries points to the same ip. We want to have it configurable for free for example to remove the subdo...
6 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Metric to see inflight request in each service

How to measure inflight request in each service? Number of request processed by application or service at any point in time. This is not same as request per second. An application may get many request at a time. In that how many are actually being...
10 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
24 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Under review

ability to monitor .NET Core without compiling application with nuget

Almost every customer we meet both new and current uses a mix of .NET Framework and .NET Core applications. Our biggest concern is that almost all applications written for .Net Core is developed outside the customer and they have no control over t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted