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My subscriptions: Backend Enablement

Need to improve observation of account/billing data usage

Customer has migrated to instana saas service andnow we need a way to - monitor- alertdata ingest programmatically.UI information is not sufficient and cannot be accessed by scripted alerting. To improve observation of account/billing data usage w...
14 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Submitted

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
9 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement

Improve Custom Service rules in the UI and the backend

Hi, We need to adjust the service naming for some services as the automatically discovered names are not allowing us to monitor the services in context of the line of business and production environment. Adjustable custom service rules - regex ena...
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Future consideration

Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
10 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Not under consideration

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units. Currently, when a user is logged in, they can only see one Unit at a time and have to continuosly switch back and forth between units. There are two reasons they want visibility across multipl...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Backend Enablement Not under consideration

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Future consideration

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
10 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Future consideration

Platform feature flags should be turned on by default (VMware, Power HMC, etc.)

The feature flags to enable capabilities like VMware, Power HMC, zHMC, SAP, etc. should be enabled by default. By not enabling these, we drive up our support costs and drive down customer satisfaction. Now, we do need to think about the best way t...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Future consideration

Backup and restore capability for all configured alerts and events

As an IBM APM V8 and IBM Instana customer, this request is to ask for a "backup and restore capability for all configured alerts and events" to support operational continuity, disaster recovery, and change management in large environments where hu...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Functionality already exists

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Future consideration

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