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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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Enabling capturing synthetic calls

We noticed (with the support of a support ticket) that the option in "Configure Synthetic Endpoints" > "Auto-Detected Health/Ping Checks" needs to be enabled in order that calls from synthetic monitors are marked as synthetic. It would be usefu...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Distinguish synthetic calls

In the Analytics > Calls screen it's not possible to make a distinction between synthetic calls ("GET /actuator/health" for example) and synthetic calls that are coming from the Instana synthetic monitors. It would be great to have a filter pos...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Instana monitoring is taking 10-15 mins to refresh time to capture the data from the server, instant monitoring is required.

Instana monitoring is taking 10-15 mins to refresh time to capture the data from the server, instant monitoring is required. This is causing delay in detection of message wait, subsystem and other alerts which depends on Instana backend console re...
14 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...
15 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...
15 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
9 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
4 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 5 Under review

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Need to document workaround when Trend Micro is running on Windows servers

When Trend Micro is installed on Windows servers, it prevents the Instana Agent from running properly and connecting to the Instana backend. The customer had to white list the fully qualified path to the instana agent and instanaPCP.exe processes....
15 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted