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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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Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
15 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

SLO window size increase

Currently windows size for SLOs is 4 weeks. Considering data retention is 13 months it would make sense to be able to select your window size to any specific size within that period. This would allow to check SLOs and error budgets evolutions over...
11 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review

GlassBox integration to see the Instana backend tracing correlated to the end user sessions recorded by GlassBox.

The customer want to understand better the beckend behavious starting from the GlassBox recorded sessions.
12 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Instana observing MinIO Object Storage

MinIO’s enterprise class features represent the standard in the object storage space. Customer needs to have observability at this level, more detail in this: https://min.io/product/overview
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Under review

Need maturity in Custom Edition

We need to significantly improve the maturity of the Custom Edition offering. This includes: documented backup/restore procedures Sizing tool for HA configurations Tuning guidelines for the key components (datastores, filler, etc.). Ideally, auto-...
6 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need improved scalability for Standard Edition

The 3 server configuration of Standard Edition has improved scalability. It is at the point where the number of MVS support will support a large number of our customers (2250 MVS). However, Standard Edition falls short when it comes to the scalabi...
6 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted