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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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Tracing through Ivory & CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) with Instana

SOAP endpoints running in CICS are recognised in Instana as endpoints only when served through an Ivory Server and the CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG). Native CTG tracing should provide insights required to expose endpoints as Service entities in I...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Trace AWS Lambda for arbitrary function

Currently its expected that a Lambda function implements the interface com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler to get traced. Because this interface is not needed, it should be possible to trace any Lambda function.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Not under consideration

supported cpu for detection of abnormal end of applications

One of our prospect of resell partner of Instana found that "no-support of Intel cpu" when its applications had been ended abnormally. The customer wondered why only AMD was supported, even Intel also share majority of market footprints. We need t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 3 Not under consideration

Add cluster wide usage lines to graphs

It would be good to have the same usage lines in the graph as we see them on namespaces or deployments.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Golang AutoTrace

Add AutoTrace for Golang. Besides our custom operators, a lot of Kubernetes components are written in Golang. We would like tracing for Golang without having to update the code. I suspect the approach would likely need to use eBPF instead of using...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Go / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Monitor Mongo Atlas API via HTTP proxy

All egress traffic must traverse an http proxy, so in order for an Instana Agent that is deployed within our environment to read the Mongo Atlas API, we require the agent configuration to support a configuration of a http proxy. This may also be r...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Warn, alert, highlight containers with Root privileges

Please highlight with a specific color deployments and containers that are running with root privileges, allow to trigger alarm on this. Probably for those who does not have open policy agent it could be a first step or to add some value for those...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Add "message" tag for monitoring kafka

I'm using instana for tracing requests and sometimes our http endpoints send kafka messages to topics.I added instrumentation for kafka python library we are using so that in can be traced in instana. Issue I'm facing is - I need to show message b...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add dump java object in heap memory

It would be useful to have the possibility to observ and determine which Java Object consume memory in the heap memory. Actually with the profiling we could see which process consume CPU or is waiting but there is no information about the memory. ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Make FTAs secure - fix conman security gaps

FTAs include conman which can submit ad-hoc commands to other workstations with the sbd command under the scope allowed by the local security file. A compromised FTA may modify its own security file at will and submit any commands to other worksta...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration