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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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Compatibility for Java Profiling/Profiling on IBM Power (specifically on Linux)

This would be useful as it gives Power users (Dillards specifically which is a deal size of 108,480) access to java profiling for specific insights that they are looking for into the code. This is a dealbreaker request for them. Thank you for cons...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power 2 Delivered

Display information when data query times out in instana ui

In instana ui preview for log message template in AP is empty.This related to an Instana Ticket: Instana Support adviced to raise an AHA request:" adding this functionality everywhere where data queries time out in UI would be a new feature request."
over 1 year ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Delivered

Ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events

Need ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events. Required format - subject line+ service name.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Delivered

Instana's Terraform Strategy

As user of Terraform and utilising: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/gessnerfl/instana/latest/docs We want to know how Instana is about to support this natively, and what are the plans/roadmap in regards to Terraform.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Delivered

Add Support for admin token-based authentication for Kong

Kong Sensor does not support admin token-based authentication. In our implementation Authentication is header based i.e in header we need to pass kong-admin-token. Please add support for admin token-based authentication .
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 1 Delivered

Enable support for TibcoBW metrics

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Delivered

Space to add description to the Charts in instana dashboard

We don't have an option to add a small notes/ description about the particular chart when we scroll over the chart. Only Chart title will not be feasible to explain about the chart to team members. Please help to add the useful notes space on cust...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

Kafka connection using username and password

It would be very useful to have the possibility for the agent to connect to kafka instances using username and password. This feature would help for better audit checks and security.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

I would like to monitor the health of etcd in a Kubernetes/OCP cluster

As the beating heart of my cluster, I would like to be able to monitor the health metrics of the cluster's etcd database.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

Adaptive Threshold for Erroneous Calls - Global Smart Alerts

Currently in Global Smart Alerts, adaptive threshold option is there for Slow calls, HTTP Status Codes and throughput. Whereas, for erroneous calls only static threshold is available. Static threshold will not account for the daily erroneous call ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered