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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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"Limited access" users should be able to use "Analyze Infrastructure"

When you want to set the permission of Infrastructure of a group with "limited access", you cannot set "Analyze Infrastructure" permission to ON. It means that "limited access" users cannot use "Analyze Infrastructure" features today. I assume tha...
21 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

Retrigger open events after a maintenance window

The use of a maintenance window is to prevent events/issues/alerts during a period which systems, transactions or metrics are expected to go outside the normal range of values/behavior. After the maintenance window, the event/alerts/smart alert sh...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Under review

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
10 months ago in Instana / Python 4 Planned for future release

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Need "Export to CSV" option on Analytics/Calls.

Need "Export to CSV" option on Analytics/Calls, so that we can export the data of certain duration & see how many calls, errors & latency was there for multiple applications. This would be useful while analyzing the applications performanc...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

save filter button in analytics page

In analytics page you can do filter on applications and all other metrics and stuff but you cant create saved filter for common search criteria or very complex queries.you should create a save button as in infrastructure page.
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Planned for future release

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories. Want capabilities that are similar to ITM v6. Customers use this capability to indicate whether their applications are performing properly. For example, if there are too many fi...
10 months ago in Instana / Common 1