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Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 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...
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Git proxy functionality on backend for agents in DMZs

Hi, When we install agents in production they are not allowed to connect to the internal Github to receive their configuration. Gitops is only possible if the requests could be routed through the backend. Any change in production also needs a long...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future 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
12 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

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.
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade or Agent disconnection

Hello Team, I am recreating this request as we had discussion with backend team ( Jeison) to look into this idea. we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. ...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
9 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Future consideration