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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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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...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana

Want the ability to bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana. Some of our competitors have solutions that have out of the box dashboards for specific GCP services. But, they also provide the ability to specify a configuration to bring in metrics from ...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

verify IIS credential on agent setup or show missing credential in agent log

When Installing and running agent on a Windows host hosting IIS, the agent seems read the content of the application pool and site with the local admin right.if local admin rights is removed from the user that run the app pool Instana wont be able...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support Helm as installation Method for instana operator

We are using the instana-operator to setup and maintain instana. For all of our other components we are using Flux to sync our Git Repository to our Cluster. For most of our Components we are using helm to install them to our cluster. Instana cure...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6

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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
9 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

List of events that triggered alerts

It would be beneficial to be able to retrieve a list of all events that have triggered alerts within a specified time frame. Currently, there is no direct way to filter alerts based on which ones were triggered by what events. Adding this fe...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration