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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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WAS/JBoss heap size alerting

We would like the ability to have events, so that we can alert, on the heap size of both Websphere and JBOSS JVM's so that we can be alerted if the size approaches the maximum amount.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Enable custom Instana SDK instrumentation on an individual pod

Adding custom spans to Java applications using the Instana SDK requires configuration on the agent. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk#example When the Instana agent is dep...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Give Teams option to hide their services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Deny-listing)

Give Teams option to hide there services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Blacklisting) Futher improving the granularity of the RBAC in Instana
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Add functionality to retrieve the Instana agent configuration file content in the Instana Agent UI

When troubleshooting Instana agent configurations then it is necessary to have SSH access to the host or Kubernetes cluster. If the UI had this feature then I could get the configuration file with a click of a button which would speeds up troubles...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Getting Monitoring Issues via Instana API

The customer can get event types such as incident, issue, change using Instana API, but they cannot get monitoring issues which are very important for them. Due to these monitoring issues, the monitoring done by Instana on technologies in producti...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists

Pager Duty integration - would be helpful to have more fields provided from instana so we can route better

Instana only seems to give an incident and service key for an alert, we can't determine what serverless repo orginated it.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

One problem, one entry on Issue page via Agent API

If I want to indicate to Instana there is somewhere a problem then there is a possibility to make a custom issue via Agent API (http://localhost:42699/com.instana.plugin.generic.event). We use this facility. There is a custom http(s) protocol moni...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / API-C 1 Functionality already exists

Remember selection time when creating short links in analytics when using presets

If you are using a relative time preset like last 1 hour e.g. and you wait for a while and then create a short link the time frame of the short link has moved by the time elapsed while you wait. This is confusing as using the short link then dlive...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

Introducing analyze infrastructure (Open Beta Feature) to self hosted installation

As we upgraded our instana version we were looking forward for the analyze infrastructure feature, but sadly it is not available on self hosted configuration. this feature would help us analyze our use cases with more flexibility
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists