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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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OracleDB - adding support for the EE8MSWIN1250 character set

Hi, We have a need for the EE8MSWIN1250 character set to be added to the OracleDB sensor because we have customers who are using this character set which is not supported by default and because of that they will not have end-to-end visibility of t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Dependencies/Flow tab Optimization to view data for a week

We have observed that the dependency tab takes a large amount of time to load when we select the time window as 1 week. We do not expect this to happen as analysis of the flows is crucial to identify impact if a service goes down . Ability to show...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Capture details on request payload

Need ability to capture details on request payload this helps to troubleshoot issues without need for applications to log the same. Feature available with competitors. Please refer to - https://docs.appdynamics.com/appd/4.5.x/en/application-monito...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

Ability to investigate Active Sessions

Whenever Instana shows high Active Sessions for a particular war file, there is no way to investigate high Active Sessions. Please add more details about active sessions to find how and who created these sessions (some basic information for who c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

IBM MQ MFT alert payload: on an IBM MQ file transfer failed event, include which file transfer failed in the alert payload "text" field

Currently, when an event of "IBM MQ file transfer failed" happens, the user needs to login into the UI to examine the event to determine which file transfer has failed. When sending an alert, there is no information in the alert payload that denot...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Infrastructure Map too slow

Our Instana has a lot of agents and the Infrastructure Map is not usable. It takes ages to load. We would like to have a solution to this problem, what about having a filter which let us show less agents in the Infrastructure Map? With such a filt...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 4 Future consideration

Show docker container name in VM view

we are running some of our applications in docker containers. We would like to see the name of the running container within the instana "breadcrumb" view. In the VM View we have the same Problem. We can see a number of Redis instances, but we can ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Network Error Logging

Modern browsers support network error logging - which is basically the possibilty to sent network issues to a distinct system. The system is to be defined via a header. This allows gathering data about connectivity issues - which is otherwise not ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Group nodes of a redis cluster in service view

We're using redis-cluster to run redundant scaleable redis services. However calls traced by java instrumentation are not mapped to a redis-cluster but to a specific redis instance. This means that redis calls for a specific redis cluster are dist...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Add support for MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication

Instana agent does not support monitoring MongoDB configured with Kerberos Authentication
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration