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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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CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics

Hi Team, We are in need of CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics to identify the pod crash which is a mandatory requirement.
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

After maintenace window no alerts created if host is still unavailable

After monthly patching we have noticed if a maintenance window was put in and the host was patched and rebooted and if Instana sees it as unavailable after the maintenance window has finished we do not get an alert.
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Provide Customers the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget

Customer would like the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget. For example, one need for this would be for the Customer to set the country to "Oman" and also set the User ID to a ...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Discovery of IIS Workers and WebSphere Instances which does not have any calls for a specific time bound

Detail: Since the inventory we monitor with Instana is very large, we do not know which IIS Worker and / or WebSphere instances are being called or not. We want the IIS Worker and WebSphere instances that does not have any calls are discovered by ...
4 months ago in Instana / WAS 1 Under review

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Mute or Silent specific service alert to exclude specific Node/Cluster from the filter

Mute/Silent alerts for Particular node or cluster which is making lot of noise. Please refer case ID TS016989752 for the same.
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

At the time of first reviewing the case to request for the backend server logs to be preserved by the SaaS team for retrospective review.

During the initial review of a case, the SaaS team should be able to save the back-end server logs and conduct a retrospective review.Of course, the customer needs to report the issue as soon as possible in order to have the best chance of preserv...
8 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Enrich transactions in Instana with Network Flow metadata from NPM

Customers are looking for Instana to be their Single pane of glass for observability. A common question is how about the network, what if the problem is there? Our partner Rebendo and customer TINE has a suggestion that customers who use an NPM li...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Enable Profiling for Applications on Windows OS

Customers need the ability to identify hotspots at a very granular level, this will help them further troubleshoot Windows hosted applications and services. All customers current and future will benefit from this. This capability should work just ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3

Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2