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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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Kong API Tracing

In Instana, Kong API gateway monitoring is limited in basic metrics moniotring but not support for tracing. However, from our Instana In Instana, the current monitoring capabilities for Kong API Gateway are limited to basic metrics and do not supp...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Delivered

Export of Dashboard with all Widgets included as PDF

Currently the data is deleted after a defined periode of time. Export functionality would help to create a comprehensive, persistant snapshot of a specific situation to document the current state, e.g. in simulations of production incidents on tes...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Delivered

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Personal API Token with same rights than the user to whom the token belows

We have been told by Instana support that users allowed to create their personal API tokens can access through the API to data that they have forbidden to access through the User Interface, which would seem to not be coherent at all. I would like ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Real User Monitoring / Synthetic 2 Delivered

Beeinstana works in 2 of the 3 customer's tenants. This prevents the feature from being used in custom dashboards for tenant B.

Details in support case TS015266449. Beeinstana does not work in all tenants and customer needs this for consistent usage in custom dashboards.
7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Delivered

RPC call in Instana is not capturing http status code

http code for WCF is mapped as RPC calls in Instana UI and same has been confirmed in the support ticket, we would like to get correct mapping for all http codes in WCF.
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 5 Delivered

Instrumention module for gorm databases

We understand that for golang database/sql tracing is available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=go-collector-common-operations#how-to-instrument-a-database-connection-created-with-sqlopen). However we use gorm.Open...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Go / Tracing 1 Delivered

Include time range in exported dashboard

When exporting Dashbaords (ie/ PDF) time range seclected is not included. Thefore if ther is no time series then we have no clue on what is the time range of the shown metrics
4 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Delivered

Enable Redis monitoring with certificates for Instana

Instana's current monitoring config the Redis instance does not use credentials to ensure monitor & retrieve data security, which means it does not support certificates. The lack of certificates support may become a shortcoming in future secur...
7 months ago in Instana / Automation 4 Delivered

FR - Certificate Expiry Sensor

Hi, As an Instana user I would like the ability to have a metric showing the number of days until a certificate expires, including the ability to alert at x or y days until expiry, so that I can proactively prevent issues caused when this happens. BR
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 4 Delivered