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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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Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
11 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Future consideration

Want to be able to enrich data based on the entities involved in an Incident and application

I'm working with a customer. The use IBM ACE and MQ. Whenever they have problems with an application or with MQ or ACE, they want to have a screen where they can see and compare some of the key metrics. For example, they want to see the Input/Outp...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Frequent TCP failure Error

The Frequent TCP fails built-in event checks whether the host has an unusual high number of TCP fails. The event inputs are: Metric - Network > Fail Metric - Network > Open/s Request - We need more details to understand the error and then on...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Add AWS Neptune Service monitoring

Instana AWS sensor has already good amount AWS services to be monitored and I would like to request to add monitoring support for the AWS Neptune service.
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Planned for future release

[python-sensor] - Instrumentation

Please add support for the following python libraries: - stomp.py (Stomp QA) - aioamqp (AMQP) - zeep (SOAP) - spyne (SOAP Server) Currently they are not supported.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Python 3 Future consideration

Grafana Data Source Alert Management

Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Include a combobox on AP, Service and Endpoint panel to move to another App, Service o Endpoint easily

Why ?: because returning to the list of Apps, Services or Endpoints is annoying Whose benefit ?: All users of Instana. Should work as a simple combobox with the links.
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Avoid filtering hosts by current availability on Infrastructure Map

Dear colleagues, we have different approaches, for different dashboards. I mean if we switch to application perspective dependency diagram, customer can see transactions and number of calls for past 24 hours even if a server that processed the cal...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

KeyDB Sensor

Customers using KeyDB
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration