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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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Smart Alert - grouping/summary/templates

A function of other APMs that I've used is the concepts of summaries and group alert copy or alert templates. Summaries - In cases, when memory, CPU and or filesystems alert they do so together which is a single event. With a summary structure, wh...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Smart alerts should have a severity placeholder

With build " 1.282.1064" the smart alerts got a very useful ability to have warning and critical thresholds defined on a single smart alert. This was a welcomed change and reduce our planned alert set by half. However, we were also expecting to be...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2

Expansions of Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Decouple the smart alert title with the subject of the resulting email. Currently with the title and subject line being the same, the display for smart alerts shows the placeholders which have no real meaning in the context of smart alert listings.
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Insana Alerting - JS errors based on error rate while using multiple filter conditions

We are trying to do alerting for JS errors based on error rate as the metric is available within alerting scope, but it's not working as expected. When applying different filter expressions within our JS alerting scope, the error rate metric isn't...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Logging API and Grafana as log aggregator

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Grafana Loki as a log aggregator solution, their business is linked to it, their SREs use capabilities of searching filtering logging of that component. At the moment they consider using Instana as an applica...
9 months ago in Instana / Logging 3 Not under consideration

Dynamically Include % 5XX or 4XX Count in Smart Alerts

Hi Team, I need to include below information dynamically in smart Alarming . Impacted country code which want to publish on mail. % of failure and failure count for impacted API name So request you to please include all the above information shoul...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Add event triggered value in custom event subject and email.

we need to added as exist in build in event when it triggered it show the value in end of the subject like (12.31%) While it not shown in subject in custom events ... i need to include this reached value in subject because not exist also in Applic...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

cloud saas service can not found service's relationship.

We need to monitor cloud saas service relationship for all cloud saas service, for example mysql s3.
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

Extend the support of NGINX monitoring and tracing for Red Hat Linux OS platform

Currently Red hat Linux OS does not supported for monitoring and tracing NGINX . Using NGINX on Red Hat OS is widely used in our bank .
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Future consideration

HMC Sensor - Add the HMC "release version" version to the product metrics

NOC agents must generate platform reports with the version to determine if there are changes. Currently, they cannot view through Instana UI and must contact the administrator of each HMC to obtain the version.
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration