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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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Integrate with Bitbucket

We have support some pipeline integrations https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=apis-pipeline-feedback-integrations That can interact with our Releases feature in Instana https://instana.github.io/openapi/#tag/Releases H...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Instrument api calls with identity

We have an api that is exposed to third parties, that api is accessed using a token. We cannot trace the calls b/c there is no way to instrument or start a trace on the server with the identity of the user associated with the token. We would like ...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 6 Not under consideration

Ability to setup email alerts on APM usage and active licenses in Account & Billing.

We have requirement to setup email alerts or any alert channel on APM usage and active licenses on a particular tenant whenever the license usage is more then 85% we would like to sent an alert to a concern teams.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Configuration option for Tracing of SQL query parameters (PostgresQL)

In certain cases, it would be helpful for us to see the query parameters of a query. We would like to have a configuration option to switch tracing on for specific services or even only database entities. E.g. we are having a concurrent access on ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Support Tracing of Kong API Gateway

Instana currently does not support Kong Tracing. On our platform, the Kong API- gateway is a very central and important component. Hence, we'd like to see spans of Kong in our distributed traces.
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 2

Need to add custom delay for agents to wait image from mirrored repository

Our customer has air-gapped environment and mirrored maven repository. However due to some reasons the Internet connection speed is not high enough. It means the default time the agent is waiting for a new sensor is too short for the connection. T...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Not under consideration

Supporting Apache Thrift (Tracing)

We need support for org.apache.thrift:libthrift:0.19.0. In order to get full tracing.
9 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration