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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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Dynamic discovery of all Filesystems

We have observed that Instana agents auto discovers only local filesystems, for other filesystems we have to define them manually in the configuration yaml file which is tedious task and high chances of missing alerts for newly created filesystems...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Automatic injection Configure via UI (Enable/Disable) Ignore browser version DZM data collector for internet apps these are the things we found rum is lacking at the moment. we are also using dynatrace so we usually compare instana with dynatrace ...
4 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

• Custom Service Detection

With a custom service detection, we need to create a custom service and monitor specifying class and methods. Instana is partially capable of doing it at the moment. however it requires to change the code itself and it is nearly impossible to do i...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

ApptioScript On Save of Editable Table

Would love to be able add ApptioScript on editable tables to run "on save" (rather than on load, on row add, on duplication, or on cell edit). This would allow the script to run when users press the save button on an editable table vs. when it is ...
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Future consideration

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Tracing extra-http-headers, extra headers are not available for thresholding and dashboarding

When using Tracing extra-http-headers, the custom header information is not available for use within Smart Alerts or within Custom Dashboards. com.instana.tracing: extra-http-headers: Customers want to be able to use the extra header parameters as...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Debug Output of Tokens in Probes should be in lexiacal order

"Older" Probes like mttrapd show the received Tokens in the Log File in a meaningful sorting. Younger Probes like MessageBus or ews list the tokens in a apparently random order. Customer uses the debug logs for documentation of different event typ...
11 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Support for Red Hat AMQ Broker

We are using Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing on Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 We know that Artemis...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Interactive BenchMarking Translation (Japanese)

Interactive BenchMarking is not translated into Japanese. It would be very convenient for Japan customers if it is translated like other products.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Future consideration