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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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INSTANA Agent to detect external intrusion

Hi, Could you manage the implementation of a feature where the INSTANA agent will be able to detect a tentative of intrusion on a host or some malware trying to use a vulnerability in the application.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 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
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana Health / Issue State queryable via API or Grafana Metrics

Introduction:-------------We have several Teams, which use internal Dashboard-Tools, which query multiple data sources (new-relic, check_mk, Prometheus, Splunk, etc., Openshift).These Tools make use of Health checks and Meta Informations.While mig...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Remote monitoring of MSSQL

It would be useful to have the ability to remotely monitoring SQL only.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Improve i-Series agent performance

Using Instana to monitor IBM i-Series system is not being to successful due to the agent being to heavy on the CPU usage of the i-Series. We need an improvement on the performance of the agent, which currently is to heavy and clients are not willi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Is a defect

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
11 months ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under 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

Ability to rename the Apache HTTPd process name

We have multiple http servers from different environments/nodes sending data to Instana. All the Apache Httpd entities are shown with identical process name - 2.4.12(with additional fixes) @<process-id>*:port. There is no easy way to figure ...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration