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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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MFT: Current Transfers should show source and destination file

We would like to have both the source file AND destination file on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard in the 'Current Transfers' section. Currently the 'Current Transfers' table in the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' das...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support for AWS Cognito User Pool Identity Provider (IdP)

We are in discussion with potential customers that want support for AWS Congnito User Pools. We already support several IdPs and this is a very popular one we currently don't support. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/cogni...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Auto detect JMX values

Requested is a feature where we have auto-discovery and i.e. have an ability to select which Metrics to show/activate JMX params are very difficult to reach (many clicks needed)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Tracing support for APIGee Hybrid

The Apigee product is "Apigee Edge". We are using Apigee as SaaS so we do not know about the current version. Regarding the use case:Apigee is our central API provider, e.g. for our AppEngine Single Page Applications but also all of our Middleware...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Grafana plugin: Support regex in metric field

Hello, I would like to use regex in metric field in order to show one metric (e.g. Free pool size) for all applications in same graph/panel. Best regards, ldrascic
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Extend thread dump with viable thread details

The Instana thread dump does not contain the following meta information of a thread: Priority (prio): the priority of the threadJava ID (tid): the unique ID given by the JVMNative ID (nid): the unique ID given by the OS Please add these details as...
9 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Improve tracing visibility

Hello, I tried to install UserTracing exit on MQ 9.4.0.0 on linux. Here after is my data chain : MQ 9.4.0.0 -> UserTracing exit -> otelcol -> jaeger backend ->grafana It works, and gives tracing times, but unfortunately, it's not as ad...
4 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Java profiling for windows OS

It gives developers continuous and historical code-level view of application performance that is essential for locating CPU, memory allocation and I/O hot spots as well as latency bottlenecks. Benefits anyone who is hosting Java on windows machine...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1

HAProxy backend to show more than 300 backend servers

Currently Instana shows 299 backend servicer and 1 Frondend servers. Our environment has more than ~1000 Servers. This feature is to increase and show more than 300 backend and Frontend servers.
4 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Under review

Monitoring WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

A representative customer in LAC has its core business based on this enterprise bus, it is required to have specialized monitoring on this platform. Ref: https://ei.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/
4 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Needs more information