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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 typings for NodeJS @instana/collector package

It would be nice to have typings for IDE Intellisense and compile-time checks, as originally requested in https://github.com/instana/nodejs/pull/458. I believe that Typescript plays an increasingly important role in the NodeJS ecosystem with frame...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node 1 Not under consideration

System Capacity filter

Previously I can setup filesystem capacity event alert with "entity.host.filesystems.fs.name" filter under scope. Unfortunately this filter has been obsoleted and Instana introduced NO alternative solution to this. Instana support advised to confi...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Instana openAPI should also provide Annotation Results for a POD/Deployment

When doing a call via the Instana open API, the current Snapshots are just containing the LABELS but no ANNOTATION. It would be really good also to see ANNOTATIONS as they also contain important data.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Enhance Synthetic smart alert to support multiple tests failure to generate a single event

Enhance Synthetic smart alert to support multiple tests failure to generate a single event. Slack Thread : https://ibm-security.slack.com/archives/C03PE83TQ59/p1717529847084299
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

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...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Allow APScheduler to be supported on Instana

APScheduler library is not supported by Instana. I have written an automation code that uses the library. Since the library is not supported by Instana, the traces are not getting collected to be monitored. I request Instana team to kindly include...
10 months ago in Instana / Python 1 Not under consideration

Collect kubernetes metrics health SLIs

Since Kubernetes 1.26, you can configure Service Level Indicator (SLI) metrics for the Kubernetes components binaries. Once you enable them, Kubernetes will expose the SLI metrics in the /metrics/slis endpoint https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

Monitoring FileNet with Instana

We want to monitor FileNet product by using Instana. We can monitor FileNet calls using the power of Instana.
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Not under consideration