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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?
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Tag prefix defintion for teams in RBAC avoiding uncontrolled growth in APs

To avoiding an uncontrolled growth in APs, we suggest to set tag-prefixes per team to allow an easy recognition and applying of naming convention for APs.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

use "Application Info" in filters

lot of application-related and other info is collected by Instana and e. g. shown in the sidebar of dashboards. Example: Is it anyhow possible to use such values in filters? Usecase: I want to get an overview about all springboot services that sti...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Improve usability of "Process Top List"

When I open a host dashboard, obviously the newest available “Top Process List” is shown, that is inside the selected timerange. It would be very useful in troubleshooting, if we could flexibly select the interesting timestamp of the “Process Top ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

expose datacenter together with nodeID at cassandra node level metrics

Cassandra metrics with instana are presented at cluster level or at node level. Cassandra clusters often have multiple data centers (DC). If one runs a nodetool status command, they can see a list of all nodes (showing node name, nodeID,...) group...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Mobile browser compatible GUI

It would be very helpful if the alerts page had a mobile friendly view. When being paged, especially late at night, I’m generally trying to coordinate everything off of my phone while getting to my computer. Additionally, when dealing with after h...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

Subject line of email alerts

We use several onprem backends. All alerts sent by Instana have an email-subject with prefix “[Instana]”. How can we modify that and/or add a label reflecting the backend-name, e.g. “[Instana-Prod1]” or “[Instana][Prod2]”?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Ability to have an "expand all" button for custom metrics

Customer is sending for each handheld mobile device (MDE) 2 StatsD metrics to Instana resulting in many "causes of problems" having to analyse each custom metric. It is easier to see if there is something going on when having the ability to open...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

understand which agent is used for monitoring a remote service

We are using remote monitoring of oracle-databases on some agents. How is it possible to identify in InstanaUI, which agent is executing the monitoring for a dedicated database / contains the config in configuration.yaml? This makes difficult al...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Improve UI for Agent details

The new ReWe onprem deployment will be running up to 30k agents in 1 TU. The UI doesn't work with this many agents in the agent reporting and details in the UI. It fails to load. I have talked to team infra and this is a known issue and I was aske...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Cross-account Cloud Run Agent

in the monitoring cloud run docs at some point it says You need to configure one Instana agent to monitor the GCP project that you are interested in. A dedicated machine needs to be used to monitor GCP resources. If you want to monitor multiple GC...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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