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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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Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Hide authorization token in alert channel header value

Please provide an option to hide the value field when there is a token inside for security reasons. You will find this in the alert channel header area. Details please find in the attached screenshot.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0

Increase Event Time Window Selection for a Spesific Time Period While Creation Event

We want to monitor the number of calls made to an endpoint in a certain time interval and create an alarm. However, the time interval options in custom event configuration of instana can be arranged as maximum 120 minutes. If we can extend this ti...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Support for jboss logging version 3.4.1 without programmatic API

For making the JBoss deployment lighter, and for reducing downtime while deployments, we consider that using jboss logging is more convenient than log4j. Unfortunately, this logging framework is not supported by instana (see case #30712). So then,...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Manage agent keys inside Instana UI

Follow on from this ticket where it was necessary to rotate the Agent Keys this feature request is for the capability to manage Agent Keys from the Instana UI in order to limit the visibility and usage of keys to specific teams or parts ...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

instana-console (docker) delete licenses

Currently instana console allows download, import and verify. We have had issues where a license needed to be deleted from instana, and we achieved this by manually deleting this from the cockroach DB.It would be great if a new flag was added to i...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Support for selects/inserts/updates/deletes/others queries metrics on Postgres database

I have enabled the PostgreSQL monitoring as describe in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-postgresql I am able to see common metrics. It is mandatory to have Query based monitoring for postgres...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add a new time option for configuring an Event

The only current time option is the "time window". It would be much appreciated if there is another time option to specify the time for which an event will only trigger if the conditions are met continually during that time. For instance, if we se...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Would like Instana to support the writing of the agent logs to the syslog system - See support request 30210

We have both aix and linux agents. We had both agents successfully writing to our syslog for quite some time (> 9 months). Recently (perhaps 6 weeks ago), after we upgraded our agents, the aix agent no longer writes to the syslog. The linux age...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

Single pane to view all restarted containers and pods for a deployment

At present there is no single view to see the graphs related to contianers those are created after restart of pods in a deployment. As these all containers belong to same deployment they should show restart-event and continuous graph related to co...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Not under consideration