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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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Password encryption in configuration.yaml file

HI Team, It is one the audit highlights not to have password mentioned as plain text in configuration file. Kindly include feature or way to have encryption password in configuration.yaml without need to purchase separate license. Regards Harpreet
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Ability to change Instana Tenant Names and Add Description

Need ability to change tenant names displayed without impacting monitoring of applications and add description along with tenant names in Instana Tenant Switcher page. Please Note : No modifications in the URL's is required as it would impact moni...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

More than one subscription in a one Cloud Service Agents

In the documentation there is a issue to use one single agent for each Azure subscription as we are able to create a Reading Service Accounts for the whole Azure Tenant and have many subscrioptions; will it possible to configure an agent in order ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Future consideration

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

Being able search Instana using the api name and then be able to drill down to related artifacts

When requests comes into Moneygram’s third-party API Gateway service, Moneygram would like the events to relay and show custom variables like the following three columns: “API”=“detailLookup”, RT (response time)=198ms, and service= https://ws.mone...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Add support for Blocking sessions - Cassandra

Verizon is requesting support for providing number of and list of blocking sessions in Cassandra.
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Documentation Upgrades

Recently went through installing an Instana Kubernetes cluster and we had significant issues due to the documentation. It is too vague, misleading, and the examples given are often confusing or incomplete. We got answers from support individuals t...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Not under consideration

Add seasonality to Smart Alerts Error and Warning Log Blueprint

As an Instana user i need the functionality to alert on Error and Warn Logs with a daily or weekly seasonality. This is crucial for Smart Alerts on Logs where a certain percentage of an occuring log message is tollerated and it is not possible to ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation.

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation. This scenario is potentially very usefull for customer (it has on-prem installation).
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Planned for future release

Excluding specific endpoints from monitoring

Instana agent discover and monitor all endpoints however some of them may be irrelevant,under maintenance or fixing progress. So it will be useful to disable/exclude specific endpoints from monitoring when needed. This feature may help us to monit...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted