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    Instana: Add a 'Maintenance-Aware' filter/toggle to the Events View to hide muted events"

    Problem Statement Currently, when a Maintenance Window is active, Instana correctly suppresses notifications (Alerting Channels). However, the Events view continues to display all triggered events regardless of the maintenance status. During large...
    6 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Submitted

    [GOV][INSTANA][PROD][PLATFORM] Feature Request: Automated Log Retention Policy for Instana

    Hi Team, We are currently experiencing frequent disk utilization issues in our Production Instana environment. At present, we are relying on manual cleanup activities every month to maintain stability. While we have a temporary workaround in place...
    5 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

    Preserve Users and with all their access on product upgrade

    Currently all users and there access have to be recreated after a version update of the IBM Concert product. For a customer with many users this means the creation of self written automation tools for a product base function. The product should pr...
    about 2 months ago in Concert 1 Submitted

    If an agent cannot connect to the backend, all data will be cached until agent can be reconnected

    With our current ITM6 agent there is caching of both alerting and historical metric data meant for the WPA.. With Instana being a streaming only agent with all processing on the server side, in the event of an outage or agent communication issues ...
    14 days ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted 0 Under review

    Alternative Identity Provider Support for IBM Concert on OpenShift (LDAP & Local Users)

    Solution Value Statement Customers deploying IBM Concert on OpenShift often lack OpenID Connect with Keycloak. Providing alternative authentication options such as LDAP or local user management ensures broader adoption, simplifies onboarding, and ...
    3 months ago in Concert 2 Under review

    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...
    12 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

    A new view or option under "Dimensions" that allows Support to right-click and debug affected applications, services, and microservices

    Problem Description Who is affected: Support engineers, SREs, and operations teams managing complex application environments. Current process: Status visibility is fragmented across tools.Troubleshooting requires manual data gathering and environm...
    10 months ago in Concert 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...
    over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 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...
    7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 4 Future 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...
    12 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

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