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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?
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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...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
14 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Under review

Enhance Instana Standard Edition to make airgapped package more available

Affected: All airgapped customers, like goverent sector, military and public sector who usually run Instana in Airgapped environment would intereted to use Instana Standard Edition and prefer the airgapped can be easily available more easily Descr...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Provide initial REST API Token without going to UI to support seemless automation

Customers want to setup and configure Instana Backend and the tenant units in an fully automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Many of the configuration tasks (like e.g. configure RBAC etc.) can only done with Instana REST API ( https:/...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

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