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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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I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 5 Planned for future release

Support for Apache HTTPd in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Apache HTTPd, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
28 days ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Submitted

Support for Python in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Python, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
28 days ago in Instana / Python / Sensor / Tracing 0 Submitted

Support for PHP in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for PHP, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
28 days ago in Instana / PHP / Sensor / Tracing 0 Submitted

Support for PostgreSQL in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for PostgreSQL.
28 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0

Support for NGINX in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for NGINX, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
28 days ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 1

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
6 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration