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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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Possibility to configure ulimits of instana containers (docker-based on-premise setup)

We recently had an issue with the max amount of open files per container. The Instana support told us, that there is currently no option to configure that. We'd love to configure that for specific containers in the settings.hcl file.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Implementing a RBAC based access for displaying the PII information in the tracing details

Hi Team, As we were evaluating the usage of Instana Real user monitoring, we saw a concern about all users be able to see the PII information like user name and email address, however we want to limit these details only to a specific set of users...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Real User Monitoring 3 Future consideration

WebLogic GridLink DataSources Monitoring

Customer is having many WebLogic instances in production environment configured with GridLink Datasources. This feature is required to monitor using Instana.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Show all database traces even if they all succeed

We opened a case for missing database calls and learned how Instana works for successful calls. The engineering team sent us the following quote, "Span batching in general doesn't consider the payloads. The rules are based on span metadata like d...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

MySQL storage used

Would like to get alerts for mysql storage capacity limit. Similar to built in event for cosmosdb "Azure CosmosDb storage capacity is getting closer to max capacity limit"
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need a even / alert generated for missing MQ Objects (queues/channels/topics/subscription etc) including system objects

These objects are very important if go missing, after some incident happens or someone deletes them accidentally can hamper entire MQ operation
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Tracing 'Send Email' actions

"Should we see emails sent by our java apps using springs Java mail sender? (I am missing outgoing Emails inside the trace or the email-server as an unmonitored system / host)"
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java 0 Not under consideration

Detailed framework and JDBC information

Ability to collect and report on the used versions of instrumentation frameworks and jdbc drivers. Use-Case: Having performance problems on the database front and with having this information we can determine or exclude problems based on the jdbc ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java 3 Not under consideration

Alerts for JVM Total Thread count

Could you please let know if we can create an alert if the total thread count is greater than a certain value
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Better Agent update management

Controlling and managing agent updates is difficult, and at times does not work, or at least, does not work as expected. We have had difficulty suspending updates in K8s - turning it off has been temporary, finding it on again. Automatic updates...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration