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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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Support most recent Postgres JDBC Drivers (42.6+)

Following on from this case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002obXXWAA2/instana-trace-missing-expected-sql-execution?language=en_US It seems Instana supports JDBC (PostgreSQL) [7.4, 7.4], [8.4, 8.4], [9.0, 9.1] , however t he latest v...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

Release markers on Custom Dashboards

when working with Custom Dashboards I want to have an indication when changes happen in order to analyze my data around a focal point. For this I would like to have release markers also in the Time Series widget on Custom Dashboards.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered

Would like to define Warning and Critical threshold ranges within a single Event or SmartAlert

If a customer wants to create both a Warning and Critical threshold for the same underlying metric, they create either 2 Smart Alerts or 2 Events. For example, create a Warning Event when CPU usage is between 80% and 90% utilization and Critical E...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

RabbitMQ queue consumer count

Consumer count per queue is missing, its a critical metric for properly monitoring RabbitMQ and would be great to see next to the message counts.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

From the “Instana trial” start mail, make access to “Instana dashboard” easy to understand.

The problem in this case is that when a customer applies to use “Instana trial” and actually tried to use it, they do not know where to access it. The contents are as follows. Follow the link below to apply for access to the 14-day Instana trial. ...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Delivered

Support to Monitor Oracle RAC

Hi, Instana currently doesn't support monitoring Oracle RAC Instances either by Remote or Local configuration. Many cutsomers are having Oracle RAC Production Instances. Also Oracle monitoring is limited to configure OracleSID. Need to extend to s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 10 Delivered

Permissions - Configuration of Events, Alerts, Smart Alerts

We would like to prevent the user from deleting or disabling custom made Events, Alerts, Alert Channels made by other users and allow user to make their own.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert 1 Delivered

Mobile App metrics for Grafana plugin

Right now users are not able to get mobile app metrics from the Instana plugin in Grafana. This would be greatly appreciated to add this feature. We would like to be able to display mobile app data in Grafana for our business partners. Filtering o...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Real User Monitoring 5 Delivered

Synthetic Secret Management

For Scripted Tests, there is a need for API Keys. These keys are secrets and need a limited visibility scope
8 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Delivered