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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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Support for monitoring Azure Power Apps

We whould like to monitor apps created with azure power apps. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/power-platform . Collect traces and metris from the applications.
4 months ago in Instana / Azure 1 Planned for future release

Add a duration metrics for activities inside business processes

When looking at activities of a bussines process I see a column with a "Duration" metrics. This metrics is not available to be selected like the "Latency" metrics in any charts. I would like to be able to select the "Duration" as a metrics under B...
4 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

It is required to have support for the Universal Payments Framework (UPF) technology developed by ACI Worldwide.

The UP Framework is at the core of ACI’s Universal Payments strategy to enable end-to-end enterprise payments. It is a set of technologies and frameworks that orchestrate all aspects of payments processing for any payment type, any channel, any cu...
4 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

The time range of the link in event closure mail should be set according to the end date/time, not start date/time

If user click the link of the closure mail of the event, it looked like the event is still active, and the icon is red. This is because the time range of the link is:From: event start date/time - 5 minsTo: event start date/time + 5 mins But we thi...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Needs more information

Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Alert for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)

We are submitting a Instana feature request for the introduction of Built-in Events specifically for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). The current lack of alerts when the ACE Integration Node is stopped poses a challenge, as A...
about 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Instana needs to send notifications/alerts when active directory certificates expire in OpenShift on Z

Without this notification, it's a manual effort to keep checking for expired certificates
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Synthetic 1 Under review