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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...
9 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...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

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:/...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 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...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Custom time range to schedule an instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
6 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Add Instana to RedHat ODF sizer

Dear colleagues, please consider adding Instana to RedHat ODF sizer: https://sizer.ocs.ninja/ Thank you
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

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

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

At the time of first reviewing the case to request for the backend server logs to be preserved by the SaaS team for retrospective review.

During the initial review of a case, the SaaS team should be able to save the back-end server logs and conduct a retrospective review.Of course, the customer needs to report the issue as soon as possible in order to have the best chance of preserv...
over 1 year ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration