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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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Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
22 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

instana enterprise operator

With the latest kubectl-intana Instana enterprise operator starting from version 1.0.0 onward, the tools with option 'version image-list' couldn't provide component info in an airgap environment or an environment without cluster connection. 1. The...
22 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need "Export to CSV" option on Analytics/Calls.

Need "Export to CSV" option on Analytics/Calls, so that we can export the data of certain duration & see how many calls, errors & latency was there for multiple applications. This would be useful while analyzing the applications performanc...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
13 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
26 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

WebMethods Integration Server Support

We need a WebMethods Integration Server 10.x support for our customer. In the flow where WebMethods Integration Server resides, the JVM is the smallest component that has calls passing through it, just like WebSphere Application Server. Thus, the ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 3

API-C physical appliance monitoring

currently this is the module we dont support either remote or local monitoring is needed for this part.
14 days ago in Instana / API-C 0 Submitted

Enabling Traceability on Azure Key Vault

The information provided today by Instana is not enough to determine when a problem occurs at the transaction level in Azure Key Vault, the information regarding performance and configuration metrics could be complemented by reviewing in depth the...
14 days ago in Instana / Azure 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 2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration