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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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True additive group scopes

Currently the group membership model is complicated, and counter-intuititve. If Group A is Access all, and Group B is no access to -say- Infrastructure, a user joining Group A would have full access. If they were to later join Group B, they would ...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under consideration

Allow label mapping in analytics or custom dashboards

Example use: Visualizaton of kubernetes metrics e.g. for resource_limits
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Functionality already exists

Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Needs more information

negate condition in custom event definition or negate matching operator

In custom event definition it will be good to have negate condition (besides AND) or to have negate Matching Operator for certain metrics. ITM has a NE operator for this purpose.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Include Custom TAGS to Events Rest WEB API

Support to tag creation on events API in order to create synthetic events based on contextual information, similar to trace tags. Widgets be capable of filter events based on tags sent by event API. Attached image describe a sample of event API us...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Instana UI usable in iframe

We want to make certain alerts and metrics for our call readiness visible in a mobile app. Currently, the integration via iframe does not seem to be possible due to the frame-option setting. Can frame-option be configured by customer?
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

Technologies Reporting metrics

Technologies Reporting metrics like min, max and average on what bases they are pulling and if we want to see total data flowing to Instana backend per day which value we should consider (min, max or average) should we sum it? As mentioned in the...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Built in event to alert for Windows service not running

Currently, built in events only support for process monitoring. However certain Windows processes such as IIS workers run in the background during periods of inactivity and start backup once corresponding .NET application receives traffic. Alertin...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
12 months ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Mutliple small Raw-Span PVCs instead of one large PVC

Answer: Use S3-comptabile object storage https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=openshift-api-reference#s3config for rawSpans to scale PVC limits We get the pvc from an external ceph cluster to openshift cluster. With 1000...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Not under consideration