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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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Limiting host agent CPU installed using Archive (tar.gz) technology

The agent is being installed using the static host agent tar.gz file provided by the Backend, the compress file is copied and extracted on the target host. Then, the agent is configured as needed. Using the archive technology (tar.gz) you can limi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Custom dashboards: Copy a dataset or filter from one widget to another

Background and context When creating a dashboard it's often useful to re-use datasets or filters between different widgets. If it's the same widget, the duplicate widget functionality can be used, but there is no way to re-use a dataset or filter ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Mobile Monitoring: Filter out network errors by default so mean latency is correct

Background and context The mean latency information in mobile monitoring is currently very skewed by that some calls show extremely high latencies. This is due to that Instana measures some corner cases that is not really interesting from performa...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Providing a Dashboard to List Release Markers across environments/tenants

Today, we have a Release marker feature to let us know when the release was made. As we started using this feature, it could be enhanced by allowing us to create dashboards to understand the release flows from one environment to another and get a ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Additional Topic Metrics for Kafka

Customer monitors Kafka performance based off lag with the topics. Right now we have bytes metrics along with messages in but they need visibility for the Messages Out metric too. Metrics needed: Messages Out Lag (difference in Messages in and out)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Process-Level Configuration for Prometheus Scraper in Instana Agent (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Summary: This idea outlines the essential need for a generic per-process configuration for scraping Prometheus data in Instana. The current missing of this feature limits Prometheus monitoring on Kubernetes and OpenShift; workarounds are causing u...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

On demand filters for monitoring data

We're using the Instana API to keep our configuration identical across multiple Instana backends that exist for our different production environemnts. To simplify our process and improve useability of the tooling, we'd be interested in the possibi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Need to get performance data from IBM Storage and Brocade SAN into Instana

we using only IBM Storage e.g. FS9200, FS9500, FS5xxx and Brocade SAN Directors and Switches. We need to get performance data from these devices into Instana and also into AIOPS for ML purpose either from each device directly or e.g. from Storage ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Storage / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Java method tracing pre-defined options

Instana is unable to determine the time/performance at the Java “method” level. Instana requires either of the two of traces to be enabled to capture the method level performance, 1. Configuration based SDK trace: No changes on the application cod...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release

Instana - Adjust Prebuilt time series graphs for optional way to view the trends.

On many time series graphs, it is hard to see if there are any adjustments in the trends with big numbers probably because the y axis starts at a 0 value. We should allow customers to choose within settings if they want to override this default be...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release