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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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Need databases names as services

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors self written application which connects to local database. We had permission issue which caused to create separate service instance for every database from received calls and customer liked the presentation. ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Terraform support for Infrastructure Smart Alerts is needed

There is currently no terraform code available to creating Infrastructure Smart Alerts. This capability is missing but needed for a customer engagement.
9 months ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 0

Support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL"

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL" instances.The customer wants to monitor all IBM Cloud services on Instana, but Instana doesn't support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databas...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Future consideration

Instana Azure sensor should support proxy configuration

Instana Azure sensor should allow to configure proxy. Exactly the same approach should be taken as for the AWS sensor described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-amazon-web-services-aws#through-agent-confi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Ability to setup event on multiple conditions

The possibility to compare / set into relation more than one value in an Event definition? I mean I have Data Source, Metric, Operator, ... - but only for _one_ parameter. What I need is something like this: Value A > 70% value of B -> Alert...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Additional ActiveMQ metrics

Additional ActiveMQ metrics (Memory Percent Usage, Store Usage, Health, Current Status, etc.)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Sharepoint Metrics Support

Customers are more frequently asking about the possibility to monitor their Sharepoint environment. Sharepoint is hosted on IIS and developed using .NET CLR. Although closed source, it should be possible to extract metrics from within IIS and corr...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Request for Native Support for PHP Applications on Azure App Service

Dear Instana Team, We would like to request native support for Azure App Service running PHP applications. Our current workaround involves installing the Instana agent in the startup script as a Linux agent. This approach is not convenient for our...
5 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 Future consideration

Adding "Call Name" and "HTTP URL" as group options in the "Analytics > Applications > Traces" view.

In the "Analytics > Applications > Calls" view, we understand that there are many group options, such as by "Call Name" or "HTTP URL." However, the customer has requested that similar group options be available on a per-trace basis as well. ...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Future consideration