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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?
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Monitoring NGINX on Windows host

I've noticed that the monitoring of NGINX on Windows hosts is currently unavailable. Therefore, for clients using NGINX on Windows, this becomes a vital factor to take into account.
11 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Planned for future release

Automated fallback from IBM-hosted monitoring locations

When IBM offers hosted/maintained synthetic monitoring locations. it might be helpful to provide automated fallback or automated verification of failed tests. For example, if a test fails from a monitor in a Virginia datacenter, retest from New Yo...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Optionally test links as well as page components

Testing a page and the CSS, JS and images that make it up ensures the page is "complete" and works well for transactional websites. For content heavy websites, it's often helpful to also test the pages linked to from the test page. That is especia...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Future consideration

For instana to support monitoring of Solace

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to add Dynamic Custom payloads to Alerts

Need to be able to add Dynamic custom payloads to an Alert. Currently, within Instana, you can add Dynamic custom payloads globally. But many parameters don't make sense to add globally. For example, I don't want to add an MQ Queue Name to a java ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Trace Analyze: Show full log message when expanding a Log entry in Logs Panel in a Trace.

Current Issue: In the current layout of Trace Analyze, the log panel of a trace displays truncated versions of log messages. Often, these excerpts are too brief to provide sufficient context or understanding of the underlying issues. To view the c...
11 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

Support for amazoncorretto:19-alpine

We are currently using amazoncorretto:18-alpine docker images for our application builds and we started an upgrade to a new version of gradle plus a new corretto version (amazoncorretto:19-alpine) but then Instana stopped working (no more applicat...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2

gRPC Support for Synthetic Endpoint Tests

As a customer, I want to use Instana Synthetic Test to monitor the availability for my gRPC Endpoints.
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Synthetics Tests granularity below 1 minute

As a customer, I want to ensure that my endpoints are available using Synthetics. Also, as a customer, I would like to have several measurements per minute to exclude temporary connectivity problems. A workaround would be to set up multiple tests ...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

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