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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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Alerts on Apdex/SLA/SLI/SLO

Currently the data is only visible on custom dashboards It would be nice to have the option to alert on this, and also have those more prominent in the Application Perspective Overview.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Future consideration

Instana agent and ui-backend proxy settings with no proxy var or proxy config per backend

We are trying to send our instana agent to a 2nd backend on your saas for testing a feature. But our kubernetes agents are getting timeouts to your endpoint. I assume it has to do with our network setup and that our proxy has to be used to reach y...
10 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Password encryption in configuration.yaml file

HI Team, It is one the audit highlights not to have password mentioned as plain text in configuration file. Kindly include feature or way to have encryption password in configuration.yaml without need to purchase separate license. Regards Harpreet
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

Instana API: Inclusion of Synthetic Trace Calls in Instana API Query for Analyze Trace

Dear IBM Instana Team, Our team frequently utilizes the Instana API to retrieve in-depth alarming details by closely scrutinizing trace details. This has significantly aided our performance analysis and error identification efforts. However, we ha...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

Support for newest version of NGINX (Nginx Plus v29)

Customer according to security reason made the upgrade to newest NGINX. Bacause libraries for version v29 are not availabe they have lost some monitoring abilities for critical systems. We need support for v29 version ASAP.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

To add custom time range in a instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Being able search Instana using the api name and then be able to drill down to related artifacts

When requests comes into Moneygram’s third-party API Gateway service, Moneygram would like the events to relay and show custom variables like the following three columns: “API”=“detailLookup”, RT (response time)=198ms, and service= https://ws.mone...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Add Disk & IOP usage to Infrastructure Comparison Table for hosts

It'd be useful to be able to have a view of all the nodes in an environment or K8s cluster that can be sorted by disk volume or IOP pressure. Infrastructure/Application Support/SRE would benefit. I imagine it working by being it's own column that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add support for Blocking sessions - Cassandra

Verizon is requesting support for providing number of and list of blocking sessions in Cassandra.
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Documentation Upgrades

Recently went through installing an Instana Kubernetes cluster and we had significant issues due to the documentation. It is too vague, misleading, and the examples given are often confusing or incomplete. We got answers from support individuals t...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Not under consideration