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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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Memory profiles are absent from .NetCore applications

We have only cpu profiles and there is no memory profiles available for dotNetCore applications. Can you please add them to have full profiling of dotNetCore applications.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Instana Mode set as IQM not be defaulted back to APM on machine reboot

We were doing our monthly patching on mongo machines where the Instana mode was showing as IQM in GUI of Instana and on the machine console as well.[ec2-user@mng3~]$ sudo cat /opt/instana/agent/etc/instana/com.instana.agent.main.config.Agent.cfg# ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Is a defect

Instana use case for IBMi monitoring

Dear Instana team, We would like to have this use case supported by Instana please: We would like to monitor if some critical IBMi jobs (that we would specify by name) is running or not I have researched the options provided out of the box by Inst...
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Installing the host agent on HP-UX Operating System

Support installing the host agent on HP-UX Operating System.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Integrate Apdex

Can Apdex scoring be integrated into Instana metric scoring? Apdex is an industry standard to measure users' satisfaction with the response time of web applications and services. It's a simplified Service Level Agreement (SLA) solution that helps ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 1 Planned for future release

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Add End User's IP Address and Hostname to INSTANA's Action Logs and Access Logs

This will help companies in regulated industries like Banking to feel more confident their data is secure and identify security incidents. This is a requirement for PCI Certification.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

tracing for work manager and data source of WebLgic

We want to trace the following WebLogic metrics: - as for work manager, execution thread count and queue retention count - as for data source, connection count and connection wait count
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Logging add HTTP Header into the log parameters

Hello, Here is some infos about the request. We highly use custom headers to get contextual informations about HTTP calls . For instance device type, application version etc ..Currently we can filter these informations on the view Application> ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 0 Not under consideration

Logging Level Info

Hello, Today the feature 'Logs' provide only warning and error log levels.We would find it valuable to also have a log level info because it provides a lot of contextual infos. One thing to point out is that if log levels info would be tracked in ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration