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Time Based Monitoring

We have several Monitors which are timing based and trigger on Certain days/date and time. Currently Instana doesn’t handle these request
about 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic Future consideration

Monitoreo_sintetico_screenshots_desordenado

Debe mostrar una secuencia en orden la capturas de pantalla en la interfaz de monitoreo sintético y debe capturar la pantalla completa y no solo una parte,
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic Future consideration

Enabling capturing synthetic calls

We noticed (with the support of a support ticket) that the option in "Configure Synthetic Endpoints" > "Auto-Detected Health/Ping Checks" needs to be enabled in order that calls from synthetic monitors are marked as synthetic. It would be usefu...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic Future consideration

Distinguish synthetic calls

In the Analytics > Calls screen it's not possible to make a distinction between synthetic calls ("GET /actuator/health" for example) and synthetic calls that are coming from the Instana synthetic monitors. It would be great to have a filter pos...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic Future consideration

Delete/nullify result in synthetics

Hello, currently in Instana, we have the synthetics. They run and produce results. We, as users, don't have any possibles interaction regarding those results. We can't validate them, nullify them in case of false positive, delete them, acknowledge...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic Future consideration

Mean on each call for the synthetics

Hello, today when we create a synthetic, we can view in the result tab the informations about each call and subcall. My idea would be to create a new tab on the synthetic view that compile a mean for each value of each calls on all the synthetic r...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic Future consideration

See the Pipeline Feedback on the Synthetic monitoring view

Based on current documentation about Synthetic monitoring I see that there is no way to see the Releases made to the environment, we have that available on other Instana views like EUM, Application Perspectives and Infrasctructure, but is missing ...
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic Future consideration

Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Synthetic Future consideration

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic Future consideration

Monitoring of API Endpoints

Kindly consider implementing monitoring of API endpoints, considering all existing authentication mechanisms in place e.g. Bearer Token. We are getting requests from Business teams to onboard APIs for monitoring which use Bearer Token authenticati...
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic Future consideration