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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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Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
22 days ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Kafka topic lag data is unusable in its current state

The way that kafka topic lag data is represented within Instana makes it virtually unusable. The reason is that each topic is listed independently. There is no way to apply general rules to the data. For example, if I try to create an Event agains...
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
19 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
29 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
30 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view We need urgently a way to build application perspective views based on discrete call tags that arise at various points in service hierarc...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Under review

ability to monitor .NET Core without compiling application with nuget

Almost every customer we meet both new and current uses a mix of .NET Framework and .NET Core applications. Our biggest concern is that almost all applications written for .Net Core is developed outside the customer and they have no control over t...
2 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted