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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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Add "path" value in helm chart with the Rabbitmq plugin defined

Hi, Please add the possibilty to add the "path" value in static-agent helm chart with using the rabbitmq plugin. All our rabbitmq containers are deployed with the "path : /rabbit". This path is not recognized by Instana because it's limited to use...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Correlation Between AWS RDS and AWS Lambda Native Tracing

We propose an enhancement in Instana to improve the correlation between AWS RDS databases and services detected by AWS Lambda Native Tracing. Currently, we experience a lack of visibility and correlation between these components, which impacts our...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Attach event payload to resolve events for PagerDuty integration

Events sent via the Instana-PagerDuty integration can be routed to different alerting services inside PagerDuty based on rules triggered by certain payloads. Instana alert trigger events include this payload but resolve events do not. This means t...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

On agents, create the ability to only specify certain sensors instead of trying to implement all possible sensors

We've found that it's really difficult to blacklist certain agent sensors since there are so many different processes on developer workstations that run with .net or java. It starts to collect information on a lot of products and you have to spend...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

provide Folder organization for dashboards

Currently, when you have a large number of dashboards, they are all just listed (alphabetically at least) in a very large drop down listbox. It would be very useful if there was an alternative way to manage all of the dashboards using folders or s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Add authentication capabilities to eum-acceptor download GeoLite2 DB from sources with authentication.

Dear colleagues, Our customer was trying to associate EUM transaction with geographical location while using self-hosted Instana. We can specify the location of GeoLite2 DB by setting the location in Instana core manifest, but there is no way to s...
4 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Need provide appropriate solution for EUM to collect data using gateway

Dear colleagues, following the Standard Instana deployment instructions in the dashboard to set EUM monitoring doesn't allow to determine IP Address because Instana gateway configuration doesn't have proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; config...
4 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

HANA DB Sensor - Generate Event for Archive Log Backup

Generate Event for Archive Log Backup
4 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

HANA DB Sensor - Display built in Events for DBA Jobs

Display built in Events for DBA Jobs
4 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

SAP ABAP Sensor - Display outbound ABAP Connections

Display outbound ABAP Connections
4 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release