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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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Adding Cluster Operator to monitoring by Instana IBM Kubernetes sensor

It would be very useful to have the ability to monitor the status of Cluster Operators in a Kubernetes cluster. Adding an additional tab to the Kubernetes status (see picture 1) Adding a separate sensor for monitoring Kubernetes Cluster Operators ...
18 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

support FastApi 0.115.8 and Celery version 5.5.2 to monitor Python nodes

Looks like Instana does not supports this version for FastApi "0.115.8" and Celery version "5.5.2" Instana requires following version only to enable container monitoring for Python docker services We are using instana version as = 3.4.1 when we ar...
2 months ago in Instana / Python 4 Functionality already exists

Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
7 days ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Allow granularity to Disable Profiles

BackgroundWe recently created a dedicated group to manage and restrict access to infrastructure-related information. This group has been granted access only to specific application perspectives and selected websites, ensuring that sensitive infras...
25 days ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Needs more information

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Customize email mail body and subject in Instana notifications

Currently we are receiving different subject lines for Instana alerts. We would like to customize the subject and email body of email alerts sent by Instana. Can you please enable feature to add custom templates for mail alerts?
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Under review

support Scala 3.x and ZIO

this feature request based on debug case number TS018964881. right now instana agent does not support Scala 3.x and ZIO. can you support in next release.
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Under review

I would like to request a policy change so that a new version number is assigned to the Instana agent with each BootStrap release.

There are cases where the version number of the Instana agent does not change even though the BootStrap included in the Instana agent has been updated. Because of this, when a bug is detected in BootStrap, it becomes impossible to identify which v...
27 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Incorrect Call Tracing in Instana with Oracle Service Bus

We are using Instana to monitor our Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). Their Oracle Service Bus (OSB) plays a central role in handling both internal and external service communications. However, they have observed an issue in the Instana Analysis Dash...
20 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted