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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 to do custom filters (Condition) to retrieve the data from SharePoint.

For more details, please find the related support case number TS015931307.
8 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 2 Not under consideration

Custom Dashboards need percent utilizations

in custom dashboards, is there an option to select % utilizations instead of absolute values. As an example for memory utilization, it shows the GB utilized, but, is there way to show % of the allocated memory used.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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

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

Pod readiness alert should heed delay settings

We've got some issues with the pod readiness event. Some of our pods need some time to start. To make up for this we've set the initialDelaySeconds value on our probes. However the pod unready probe does alert after a pod has been unready for a mi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

MSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host

Since theMSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host.We can extract either the default port without the configuration or the non default port which is configured via co...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 5 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

Add tracing capability for MQ MFT

My customer wants to trace the file transfers in MQ
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Other Tracers 1 Future consideration