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Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor Future consideration

Allow limited access to Infrastrucure Smart Alerts

Currently only users with unit wide scope access on Infrastructure are allowed to access Infra Smart Alerts, but we'd like to delegate alert configuration to the teams responsible for their limited area only. This means Infra alerts currently have...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure Future consideration

Create Automation to Refresh and Update Access Scope of Instana Teams Every "N" Minutes

In large-scale environments where Instana Teams are used to logically segment access across dynamic infrastructures (e.g., Kubernetes, multi-cloud, ephemeral workloads), the resources assigned to a Team’s Access Scope can change frequently. Howeve...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure Future consideration

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor Future consideration

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Needs more information

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure Future consideration

Ability to Save as PDF

On the main Host page it shows lots of usefull information CPU MEMORY NETWORK FILE SYSTEM PROCESS etc It would be good if their was the ability to save this screen directly to a PDF File to capture all the charts / graphs shown in there for the ti...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Future consideration

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Planned for future release

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Planned for future release

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