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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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Need to create alert based on trace / http metric value

create a custom alert (and thus event in the first instance) in our Production Instana instance.EVENT: The application is "Card Services" the metric is "Call latency" (P99) and the filter I'm trying to apply is on call.http.path that equals a spec...
about 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Add capability to raise events for current resource usage by pod

Our customer monitors applications running in Kubernetes environment. The application may consume more resources than requests. When it reaches the limit OCP is restarting the pod, that causes service delay. They want to monitor when the resource ...
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Functionality already exists

Make Instana Agent removal completely clean. Currently, there is no uninstaller when performing Static install, so differences remain in the registry.

When instana agent is installed statically on windows, updates and writes are made to the windows registry when start.bat is used, which cannot be removed.This is because there is no uninstaller for static installations. Enterprise-grade customers...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

Supports edge devices utilize Microshift

We believe that 5G will increase observability requirements for edge devices.We hope that K3s, of course, will support Red Hat's Microshift before competing products to gain an advantage.
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists

Instana is really good at monitoring as observability of Kubernetes. But its capability is only focusing on Pod as Kubernetes deployment not as K8S CronJob that is so different.

Instana has plenty of built-in Events for Kubernetes Monitoring. However, some built-in events only suit Pods as Kubernetes deployment, not Pods as CronJob.Instana built-in Event : "Kubernetes Pod condition status" generates Critical Issue in the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Allow report export on Events data

As an SRE, I want the data from Instana when looking for Incidents (Event Tab) to be exported automatically and not just being queried inside Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Extend Custom Dashboard (Widget) capabilities

Customers, time and time again, are looking for a way to chart specific information on a custom dashboard. This allows them to quickly extract data that Instana is already capturing and review in one place, then drill down from there. For this cus...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Functionality already exists

Add profiling information to Traces/Spans

Some other vendors like Datadog include profiling information (e.g. CPU hotspots, CPU lock contention, ...) to the Traces/Spans.This is very valuable information in case of troubleshooting.Are there any plans to support such a feature in the near ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Filter calls on the agent level based on IP addresses

We are running Network Scans against our Linux Server on which our Applications are running. This results in a lot of Calls against our Applications which are traced in instana and looks like an attack. We would like to filter these calls on agent...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists

Merge/Group Availability Zones and Custom Zones on Infrastructure Map

For Customers it is beneficial to merge i.e. AWS services and EC2 instances in the group of the infra overview in Instana to understand quickly which hosts are relevant/heatly/etc. A couple of tickets was found with the similar request: https://in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists