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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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Implementation of log suppression function with "CRI-O"

We would like to deal with this problem as soon as possible. Since I want to suppress the output of Instana Log, I was previously taught how to support it. However, the adapted method is log suppression for "containerd" and cannot be applied to lo...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Not under consideration

Java Object in heap memory

Could it be possible to add the possibility to have a look on the Java Objects in the heap memory ? Currently we could see the threads that are waiting or consuming a lot of CPUs but we cannot see which objects in the heap memory are taking up a l...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Differentiate between Agent and JVM offline events.

It is not possible to differentiate between a JVM going offline and if there is a communication drop with the Instana agent. This has been discussed with IBM support TS013050872. Request for service improvement to be able to tell the difference so...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to monitor status pages of other tools and trigger events or query data from them

Add functionality to monitor status pages of other tools and trigger events or query data from them. Users will be able to keep an eye on all used thrid party services in one place.New Relic and other products also provide this service. See https:...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

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

Instana REST API: Allow aligning datapoints with 24 hour granularity to timezones other than GMT

Using Instana application analyze REST API, if I request datapoints with a 24 hour granularity and a window size equal to a whole number of days, I will only get the expected response if my timeFrame is aligned with GMT date boundaries. If I want ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future 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

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