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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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Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
21 days ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists

Events - Event table should have the affected entity name

In the events-event table, with the title, on, started, end, timeline, state, the entity name is not present or sortable on the entity to determine if the events are focused on affected population. The on column should include the entity name not ...
11 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Not under consideration

All tables should be able to be sorted, filtered, shared and exportable to csv

Since there is not a way to inject custom fields/values such as a note that a specific agent, event, smart alert is a work in progress, or associated to a specific project task or incident response, we have to be able to create order listing of th...
11 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Monitor on message types

Hi, We have some requirements where instead of putting a certain message id to monitor. We monitor all *INQUIRY messages which has not been responded within a certain period of time. If an INQUIRY message is still waiting for a reply for more than...
12 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Need an alert configuration for Instana License expiry

Hi Team, We would like to have an alert configuration to notify us on the license expiration. It will be helpful for us to renew the license on time. We request you to please consider this request into consideration.
12 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

APIs needed for adding Tags and Zones for Instana agents

It will allow to do bulk tags and zones for a group of agents. We can of course use git based and Ansible but APIs are these days the easiest one to go for and if you provide swagger gui for APIs it will be even easier to manage. Since you are giv...
13 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

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.
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

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