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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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Alerts for required time only.

We have some application running in Day time and 5 days a week and don't want to monitor alerts after hour. If we can add time frame while creating alert that will give the user to ability to set alerts for specific time.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Cannot rename/label hosts

It is easy to segregate the servers
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add support for Tomcat Server Datasources using the Oracle UCP Driver

This would provide additional visibility into Tomcat applications that use the Oracle UCP datasource. Today there is no visibility for datasource usage on Tomcat servers using the UCP driver. This makes it difficult to correlate pool usage/availab...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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

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

Need to be able to threshold using COUNT even if the object is NOT an entity

Currently, Instana allows you to use a COUNT evaluation within the system rules. This allows customers to COUNT entities that meet a certain criteria. For example, count the number of processes that are running. But, there are number of customer u...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Planned for future release

Name individual spring boot applications when sanitizing sensitive values

We have a customer with a lot of springboot applications and due to their sanitizing policy, we cannot see the application names in Instana and they show up as "*****", there are 3 solutions for this according to springboots own documentation: htt...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need a "Hostname" field when using a Remote monitoring sensor

With many of the Instana sensors that do Remote Monitoring (MQ, MQ FTE, DB2, Oracle, etc.), there isn't a field that allows a customer to identify the hostname of the remotely monitored system. I'm working with a customer that it integrating Insta...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Instana agent and ui-backend proxy settings with no proxy var or proxy config per backend

We are trying to send our instana agent to a 2nd backend on your saas for testing a feature. But our kubernetes agents are getting timeouts to your endpoint. I assume it has to do with our network setup and that our proxy has to be used to reach y...
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Password encryption in configuration.yaml file

HI Team, It is one the audit highlights not to have password mentioned as plain text in configuration file. Kindly include feature or way to have encryption password in configuration.yaml without need to purchase separate license. Regards Harpreet
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

mulesoft api support in instana

I dont see instana agent capturing any api level metrices for mulesoft anypoint api, even though we installed the instana agent on eks cluster hosting mulesoft RTF. its of no help as far as application monitoring is concerned
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 5 Future consideration