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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 "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...
25 days ago in Instana / Common 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...
27 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Request to display total number virtual logical processors in Instana dashboard when Windows Server 2019 has more than 64 cores assigned.

Windows 2019 Operating system's native applications such as Task Manager can manage and maintain to show more than 64 logical processors. Instana currently lacks ability to display total number of virtual processors assigned to Windows Server 2019...
10 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Displaying Incorrect Assigned Virtual Cores in Instana Dashboard for Windows Server 2019

Problem Statement: The Instana Dashboard does not display the full number of virtual cores assigned to Windows Server 2019 virtual machines due to a design limitation. This creates a discrepancy in monitoring data for Windows 2019 OS, which impact...
10 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Retrigger open events after a maintenance window

The use of a maintenance window is to prevent events/issues/alerts during a period which systems, transactions or metrics are expected to go outside the normal range of values/behavior. After the maintenance window, the event/alerts/smart alert sh...
19 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Grafana Instana Plugin dashboard features

We have integrated the Instana with Grafana for dashboarding and have observed that some of the below features are missing which will help in creating better dashboards for customers. 1) TopN - To show the top N Utilized nodes 2) Option to filter ...
11 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

slow calls detection

some of our teams are using mendix and we noticed that even thoug we can list the calls with different metrics we cant see how long the actual activity took unless we click on the calls one by one. we should be listing the calls by the activity ti...
11 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Service Configuration

Exclude URL’s Mute requests (Still monitor request but don’t alert
11 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Easy threshold management

We can’t configure built-in events. Threshold management for every individual service/host. the configuration can be done for services and hosts as well because the operational cost is too high at the moment
11 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted