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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?

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Windows Service status

It would be great if we could see and alert on the status of Windows Services, Running, Stopped, Started etc. The current "Services" section in the configuration file is really just process monitoring. We need a clear distinction between the two.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Delivered

Threshold on the same metric twice within the same

Customers need the ability to threshold on the same metric twice within the same Event. It is VERY common for customers to want to setup two different Events (1 warning and 1 critical). They way they achieve that is something like the following: W...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Support Akamai authentication NodeJS module

Akamai requires that you use their own NodeJS module for authenticating to use their APIs - https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/authenticate-with-edgegrid I'm requesting that the official Akamai module gets added to the supported third part...
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Delivered

MSSQL Polling rate

Currently, the ability to control or set the polling rate in database sensors are available in DB2 and Oracle, but not MSSQL. The DB performance is impacted by having an aggressive polling rate, and we'd like to adjust it. This is causing high res...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support for Redis / Jedis Version 4.x (incl. 4.3.2)

Currently supported according to documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/262?topic=machine-instrumented-frameworks-libraries) Redis (Jedis) [2.8, 2.10], [3.0, 3.9]
11 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if a configuration change has occurred

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if a configuration change has occurred
4 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Delivered

SAP ABAP Sensor – Display Tables irrespective of it having Payload

SAP ABAP Sensor – Display Tables irrespective of it having Payload
4 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Delivered

OpenTelemetry Infrastructure correlation improvement

The customer is using the standard Otel protocol exporter (via http/grpc) and sends data to the instana agent on the host. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol They can s...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 8 Delivered

#EMEA #SPGI Add support for PHP 8.1

Durign a PoC with a public transport agency in Spain we have discovered that Instana does not support PHP 8.1, most of their develepment is based on PHP frameworks so not having this tracing capability for this version of PHP does not allow them t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 8 Delivered

HANA DB Sensor - Show Disk Used Percentage

Show Disk Used Percentage
4 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Delivered