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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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Plug-In or patch updates in ACE toolkits to enable better viewing such as expand capability of ESQL conditions

- Similar to Java compute node, where one can expand the code at function level; compute node must be equipped with similar capabilities to view the code in a better manner. - Users (developers) must be able to expand and minimize the code at proc...
over 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Seperation of batch trace with large call volume into multiple traces

Currently you cannot separate/split the number of traces as the default criteria cannot be changed.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Host-Agnostic Custom Events on StatsD Metrics

Having Application-specific StatsD metrics sent to Instana is helpful when creating custom dashboards, where we can monitor the change in metrics regardless of which host is sending them. However the custom events are tied to a specific host which...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Provide trace duration in API response

Current API trace endpoint https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTrace does not return the overall duration of the given trace. The Instana UI however does show the overall duration of each trace. Would love to see that attribute also be...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Ability to monitor the custom process and change the process name based on the different arguments

This feature request is to monitor the custom process end to end. Basically the running batch process on the server when we have requests to run different batch processes some on a particular schedule and some on an adhoc basis. So, when the batch...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

restricting API source IP addresses

Anyone who knows API token can change Instana configuration with using Instana API. For security, I hope that Instana backend should be able to restrict API source IP addresses.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

full feature monitoring for real time MSK

There are differences between monitoring of self hosted kafka and AWS MSK. The MSK metrics are available in AWS but not in Instana and I woudl propse to show the PER TOPIC metrics from MSK in Instana they way we do for self hosted Kafka.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Analytics with large time span reduce available most recent traces

We found that the result set of traces is dependent on the time window used. Example if you use window of last 5 minutes you will get most recent traces , but if you set the a window of 7 days you won't see most recent traces and latest traces bei...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Use Agent based App Java Profiling based on Environment Variable value

Introduction The Instana Agent offers the feature of Profiling Java Applications to find Performance Issues inside the service execution and gives a good output/hin on the code/method level. This can only be set inside the agent config globally fo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Provide level WARN for Docker version of Instana agent

In https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=requirements-installing-host-agent-docker#installation INSTANA_LOG_LEVEL does not provide the level WARN. I guess this is an issue and should be added. Esp. for consistency.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

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