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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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Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
25 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Custom event for disk status

Customer is looking to replace existing tool with Instana for IBM i monitoring. They are currently using an event trigger when disk is not found which is not currently possible with Instana. This request is to support custom event wherein customer...
14 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Monitoring python applications running on Windows hosts in Instana

Hi Instana Team, As a user who relies on Python applications running in a Windows environment, I wanted to highlight the current limitations with the instana.collector.helpers.runtime module due to its dependency on the Unix-specific resource libr...
14 days ago in Instana / Python 0 Submitted

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
15 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Document instana agent log error message meaning, criticallity and potential resolution

Agent logs in our production and preproduction env are collected centrally in our logging plattform, but currently we cannot interpret message meaning and criticallity as needed for enterprise operation of our vending platform.
15 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Configurable Sampling Rate and Ignoring Calls

Detail : We would like to configure the sampling rate of a process or a service in Instana. For example, there are 10 different call names for one process, but we just want to see 2 of them to be captured by our agent, so it means sampling rate of...
30 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Tracing Granularity can show in microsecond

We know that the smallest unit ini Instana tracing is <1ms. somehow, there is couple of technology that sensitive to performance under 1 microsecond units. So, we hope that Instana can provide tracing in microsecond units instead of showing <...
30 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Instana Support for Ceph Quincy (v6) and Above

Title: Instana Support for Ceph Quincy (v6) and Above Detail: Instana's current support for monitoring Ceph covers the version Pacific and below. We are using Ceph version Quincy (v6) and we would like Instana to support this version and above. Th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Discovery and Zero-Code Instrumentation of C++ Applications

Title: Discovery and Zero-Code Instrumentation of C++ Applications Detail: Instana agent couldn't able to do both discover and instrument the applications written in C++ with .NET Framework. We would like to discover and instrument these kind of a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Metric to see inflight request in each service

How to measure inflight request in each service? Number of request processed by application or service at any point in time. This is not same as request per second. An application may get many request at a time. In that how many are actually being...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted