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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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Instana Metrics Sensor for Solace Message Broker on Docker

We have more than 30 Teams using the Message Broker Technology - Solace. Some of them are central data providers, which makes this Technology a critical component in the overall the company Service & technology landscape. Operating and Monitor...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

To avoid disk getting full due to agent retrying failed attachements (Re : INSTANA-I-1077)

Although INSTANA-I-1077 has become "Not under consideration", we'd like you to reconsider by checking our new comment (explanation on our purpose of the request). Thanks. "Hi, Henning. Thank you for your time for INSTANA-I-1077. Before you close t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

What’s needed: Root Cause Analysis is provided at the same time some delay is detected (applicable for Aurora MySQL & RDS).

[Ideal Analysis Function] What we’d like to request you is to add a function of analysis which is able to show the detection of some delay and its root cause at the same time (I.e. : root cause clarification at the same time of the delay detection...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 4 Not under consideration

About adding available memory

In order to check the operation of the OS, please add the available memory calculated by the following formula. AvailableM=$(awk '/MemFree/{free=$2} /Buffers/{buff=$2} /^Cached/{cached=$2} /MemTotal/{total=$2} END {print ((free+buff+cached)*100)/t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Introducing analyze infrastructure (Open Beta Feature) to self hosted installation

As we upgraded our instana version we were looking forward for the analyze infrastructure feature, but sadly it is not available on self hosted configuration. this feature would help us analyze our use cases with more flexibility
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists

Sub flow Monitoring inside the main flow of the Integration Node for IBM ACE Middleware

Its useful because many of the Financial Institutions like Banking sector would want to see the traces sub flows inside the main flow of any Integration Node in IBM App Connect.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Future consideration

We need to perform signing request using Private key

Hello Team, We need to signing the message with private key of the sender and verify the message to the public key of the sender. For signing purpose we don't want to implement public key of the sender. We tried it with private key of the sender w...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Not under consideration

Feature to set the limit based on the number of failed attachments (Instana)

[How it is now] When an agent fails to execute its attachment (attachment error in occurrence of some event such as full GC), the agent continues to retry the attachment every 10 minutes repeatedly until it succeeds. [What's needed] It'd be great ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook, so that you don't have to open the entire list of IPs given by the instant support according to the region and then run the risk of adding more IPs without inform us and that the alerts do n...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SRE 1 Not under consideration

metric or api endpoint for sent alerts

Currently there's only a fuzzy way to get the amount of sent out alerts, and even only for smart alerts. As alerting is a very crucial and important feature (when used), it should be easier to figure out how many alerts had been sent in the past (...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration