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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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Limiting host agent CPU installed using Archive (tar.gz) technology

The agent is being installed using the static host agent tar.gz file provided by the Backend, the compress file is copied and extracted on the target host. Then, the agent is configured as needed. Using the archive technology (tar.gz) you can limi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Providing a Dashboard to List Release Markers across environments/tenants

Today, we have a Release marker feature to let us know when the release was made. As we started using this feature, it could be enhanced by allowing us to create dashboards to understand the release flows from one environment to another and get a ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Auto Upgrade JVM with Instana

Please update Java(Azul or Eclips) when updating instana via the agent update. As vulnerabilities appear instana should update the Java it uses and allow for the update to be seamless
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Additional Topic Metrics for Kafka

Customer monitors Kafka performance based off lag with the topics. Right now we have bytes metrics along with messages in but they need visibility for the Messages Out metric too. Metrics needed: Messages Out Lag (difference in Messages in and out)
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Meta Data in traces and end-user beacons used for smart alarm metrics

We tried to create smart alarm with using our website's metadata in traces and end-user beacons. With the current version, we can use these for filtering the available smart alarm metrics but we can't create alarms based on them. Some errors can b...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Process-Level Configuration for Prometheus Scraper in Instana Agent (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Summary: This idea outlines the essential need for a generic per-process configuration for scraping Prometheus data in Instana. The current missing of this feature limits Prometheus monitoring on Kubernetes and OpenShift; workarounds are causing u...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Signing Instana agent images

Instana agent images should be digitally signed to verify content integrity.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Mobile App Monitoring - App starts and views performance metrics

Hello, I would like to know if features concerning mobile app performances will be developped in the future ? We are currently using Google's Firebase SDK to track metrics like 'Application start duration' and slow rendering / frozen frames but it...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Future consideration

Built-in Event on docker container - CPU Usage

Hi team, Currently, on the docker container entity type, there is only one built in event (on the memory) : https://instana.io/s/oAKdnEMqQtuTNHKaq1JBAw We would like to know if it's planned to have a built in event also on the CPU usage which woul...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Logging Amazon Kinesis to instana

Hello, A few details about this feature.It would be interesting to explore the possibility to connect from our Kinesis Data stream. We currently push logs with Json format via Kinesis to elasticsearch.The idea would be to be able to push these Jso...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration