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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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Attach event payload to resolve events for PagerDuty integration

Events sent via the Instana-PagerDuty integration can be routed to different alerting services inside PagerDuty based on rules triggered by certain payloads. Instana alert trigger events include this payload but resolve events do not. This means t...
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
9 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

IMS Connect support with Instana on z

We have transaction flow with IMS transaction exposed thru IMS Connect. This is not supported flow by Instana on z
9 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Functionality already exists

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Add authentication capabilities to eum-acceptor download GeoLite2 DB from sources with authentication.

Dear colleagues, Our customer was trying to associate EUM transaction with geographical location while using self-hosted Instana. We can specify the location of GeoLite2 DB by setting the location in Instana core manifest, but there is no way to s...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Need provide appropriate solution for EUM to collect data using gateway

Dear colleagues, following the Standard Instana deployment instructions in the dashboard to set EUM monitoring doesn't allow to determine IP Address because Instana gateway configuration doesn't have proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; config...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

HANA DB Sensor - Generate Event for Archive Log Backup

Generate Event for Archive Log Backup
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

HANA DB Sensor - Display built in Events for DBA Jobs

Display built in Events for DBA Jobs
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

SAP ABAP Sensor - Display outbound ABAP Connections

Display outbound ABAP Connections
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
10 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration