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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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Define reoccurring maintenance windows

Please offer the possibility to define reoccuring "maintenance windows". Usecase: Prevent getting alerts for process-restarts that are scheduled every night / every Sunday / on each 1. day of a month / …
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation. Instana injects a 12 MB jar file in the /tmp folder if pods in the OCP cluster. If the pods do not have enough space, then the pods may be evicted. By checking if there is enough space be...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Delivered

Recalculate smart alert baseline via API

We're managing multiple instana backends via API configuration. This works for many configuration items. However it doesn't work for Smart Alerts with a daily or weakly seasonality. Seasonality differs per system. While it is possible to recalcula...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

TuxedoApp Application Dashboard - Update View

Under the prebuilt TuxedoApp Application dashboard view, we should add another column under the Tuxedo Service List section that shows the Tuxedo Server name that the Tuxedo Service is part of. Reference the attached screenshot named screen1.jpg ...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Missing condition "OR" while configuring thresholds

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss condition "OR" while configuring thresholds. Our customer uses it in Tivoli Monitoring situations. Customer seeks for transition to Instana, so its implementation is highly demanded or at least any analog. Below...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Delivered

Extend MQ events

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue Manager events that we need to monitor: "NOT_AUTHORIZED" "UNKNOWN_OBJECT" “Queue_Type_Error” “Default_Xmit_Queue_Type_Error” “Remote_Queue_Name_Error” “Transmission_Queue_Type_Error” “Transmission_...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Delivered

AWS Tags not getting captured for Servers where IMSDV2 was enabled..

We have configured Disk Space events on few servers to alert on Disk Space utilization, but the alerts not triggered though the Disk Space threshold exceeded the limit. When verified we noticed that tags are missing for respective servers, and we ...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Restrict access to Heap Dumps

Currently everyone who has access to a JVM infrastructure perspective in Instana can also create a heap dump from there. Heap dumps might contain sensitive information. This access to the heap dump implies a major security and compliance issue for...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

Allow for increases in SLI quota for Instana.

We have run into a hard limit for the number of SLIs that are able to be created in Instana. When we asked to have the limit increased, we were told by the Instana engineers that this isn't possible currently. Its a hard coded limit that isn't abl...
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

.NET support for AWS Lambda runtime

.NET is currently not supported in the AWS Lambda runtime for agent deployment. We are running a .NET Lambda application which requires tracing to be included in part of an Application perspective.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 3 Delivered