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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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Support OracleDB for Golang

Currently our agent support most of the general databases, would be great if we can support OracleDB so it valued customers to see insightful traces. At the mean time, Dynatrace is also releasing the support for Go-Oracle-connector libraries.
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Instana openAPI should also provide Annotation Results for a POD/Deployment

When doing a call via the Instana open API, the current Snapshots are just containing the LABELS but no ANNOTATION. It would be really good also to see ANNOTATIONS as they also contain important data.
about 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Instana grouping in Analyze Calls for Smart Alert Event by blueprint template

If you jump from smart alert event to analytc by clicking on "Analyze Calls" the predefined grouping seems to be defaulted to 'by endpoint'.It would help a lot if grouping would be done by templated blueprint criteria.
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 6 Not under consideration

HAProxy Tracing

Tracing capabilities for HAProxy, similar to what is already available for nginx
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Planned for future release

Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ 0

Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

Improve tracing visibility

Hello, I tried to install UserTracing exit on MQ 9.4.0.0 on linux. Here after is my data chain : MQ 9.4.0.0 -> UserTracing exit -> otelcol -> jaeger backend ->grafana It works, and gives tracing times, but unfortunately, it's not as ad...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Instana to support Vercel

Vercel is actually the easiest, most powerful and easy-to-use platform that can help developers build and deploy high-quality web applications quickly and efficiently. It offers a variety of features such as continuous integration and deployment (...
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Ignore/ suppress / downtime function for events

Currently there is function called "Maintenance windows" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=alerts-scheduling-maintenance-windows This is lacking the functionality to prevent the events from showing up in the Events lo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

HAProxy backend to show more than 300 backend servers

Currently Instana shows 299 backend servicer and 1 Frondend servers. Our environment has more than ~1000 Servers. This feature is to increase and show more than 300 backend and Frontend servers.
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration