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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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Monitoring Active Transactions running at threads in Pods on Kubernetes called as "X-Active" is required.

There are dominent competitors against Instana in Korea Market.All of them are providing the feature called as "X-Active" that monitors active transactions running in pods on Kubernetes whether or not their state are normal or pending and provides...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Implement Synthetic Monitoring function in Docker (self-hosted) version

Customer is considering using Docker version in DMZ for open internet applications. Main Instana will be migrated into OCP version.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Not under consideration

Option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see for Custom dashboard

In custom dashboard is there option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see the value for Custom dashboard as it would be helpful for SRE team to visualize the dashboard.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Prod: change in autotrace webhook version needs application to clean and redeploy(prod blocked)

The autotrace mutating webhook is only called when there is a redeployment.We would need to rewrite this into an operator to gain more control and actually observe the state to trigger a redeployment. This is a production blocker as every-time we ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Add support for INP

Currently you support data on other CWV, when will you be adding INP?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

We are looking for an Instana Sensor to get resource and tracing metrics from MarkLogic DBs

This would be useful in complemting our services which call the ML databases.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Alerting on call drops of less than 30 min

It would be useful for us to have the possibility of being able to create alerts to supervise call drops of less than 30 minutes
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Suport for monitoring FusionAuth java-http

We are asking for suporting this technology, java-http, used by this fusionAuth distribution, https://github.com/FusionAuth/java-http/tree/0.1.12. Currently, the JVM is monitored, but the related calls are not registered at traces, which would be ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to exclude entity from scope

I faced a problem with excluding one service from scope in Dynamic Focus Query when I tried to add alert for critical incidents. Also the same for PA, I can use only AND or OR operators. It will a good if you add possibility to exclude service fro...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration