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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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Allow Instana data source in Grafana to "Skip TLS verify" when using proxy

The Instana plugin in Grafana doesn't work if you use the proxy mode and the Instana on-prem uses a self signed certificate. You get this error message:Proxy request failed" err="x509: certificate signed by unknown authority" Most other data sourc...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Support sensor for enterprisedb (EDB)

EnterpriseDB (EDB) is IBM's strategic direction for Postgresql databases. Many IBM solutions including watsonx, IBM Cloud Paks/Foundational Services, and more will be using EDB going forward. EDB is also a strategic direction for IBM as we are an ...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Analytics grouping by K8s annotations

It would be great if in analytics we were able to group by kubernetes annotations. We retrieve some infrastructure information from analytics and for us it would make sense to be able to group by annotations as at the end some of them have a clust...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Not under consideration

Self-recovery in case of OOM error to improve reliability of the instana agent service

Background Instana agent has default JAVA heap as follows: JAVA_MIN_MEM=64mexport JAVA_MIN_MEMJAVA_MAX_MEM=160mexport JAVA_MAX_MEM Despite setting more than 3 times the heap size for JAVA_MAX_MEM (eg. 512m) over the nominal memory usage (eg. avera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Instana Active User information in Instana itself

The customer would like to be able to get a view of how many daily/weekly/monthly active users are using Instana. Having a view on this according to role/group/team would also be useful.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Future consideration

HPA values for a Kubernetes namespace

The customer would like to plot/monitor the HPA values [default CPU based] in Instana.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable.
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Time data needed at the call details panel

It is not easy to know the starting time and the latency for calls, when the timeline is not shown in the analyzer, i.e., for big traces. My proposal is to show, in the call details panel, at what time the call started and which was its latency. T...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Export and Import custom dashboard data

Hi team, Custom dashboards are becoming more popular with our internal and external customers, and one of the current needs is able to export and import custom dashboard data. For example, we have a bunch of JSON files and to import them we need t...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration