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Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Replace VIP implementation with Keepalived

The current implementation of VIP management has some implementation limitations, is prone to breaking especially in split-brain situations. In a way it's also reinventing the wheel. Everything we already do with the VIP implementation can be done...
22 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Not under consideration

Addition of Wi-Fi Client Device Metrics Collection

•Support Wi-Fi client devices data / session data within SevOne for Reporting (individual Wi-Fi session data for Wi-Fi client devices) •Airwave is running in single appliance. StarHub expects proposed solution to be comparable in sizing. (data arc...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to have daemonset deployment for window's cluster

Hi Team, Currently we have instana-agent daemonset to monitor the linux eks server. Also we have window's cluster in AWS where nodes image is - Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Could you please provide the daemonset yaml file to install the instana-...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 4 Not under consideration

Allow Dex to run on multiple appliances

Currently in SSO set-ups Dex runs on 1 appliance. This makes SSO hard to function in environments behind load balancers as not every appliance is running the daemon and the requests may not come from the Cluster Leader
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Not under consideration

When SSO is enforced, there should be a supported way to disable admin account login

As of NPM 8.1, the ability to enforce SSO and disable all password login is supported. However, the admin (uid=1) user is exempt from this as a failsafe. A client would like to a supported way to disable the admin user, when SSO is enforced, as a ...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Not under consideration

SevOne Cisco ACI Solution should write ACI Faults to the Database for Baselining

Currently today the Cisco ACI solution is able to visualize the Fault Messages that are available from the APIC and the POD but is not written to the database. This means that users of the solution can see what is available in real time but can no...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to populate Tenant with a default in login page

In multi-tenant environments without OIDC, the tenant input is currently blank is not automatically populated with an available default. This could be set by administrators.
12 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration