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Allow Custom Events and Alerts to Evaluate Conditions Across Multiple Entity Types

Problem Statement Instana Custom Events currently require users to select a single entity type (host, service, application, etc.) when defining event conditions. Once the entity type is selected, all event conditions and metrics are restricted to ...
12 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Introduce Team-Level Administrator Role for Delegated Team Management

Problem Statement Instana currently provides team management capabilities only through administrative permissions that apply across all teams. Organizations with many application teams often want to delegate ownership and maintenance of specific t...
12 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Allow Saving Filters and Analytics When Using Scoped or Contextual Views

Problem Statement Users are currently unable to save certain filters and analytics configurations when working within scoped or contextual views. During investigation, support indicated that the current behavior is not supported and recommended su...
13 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Support Additive Role Permissions for Users Assigned Multiple Roles

Problem Statement Instana currently evaluates multiple assigned roles using a restrictive (least-permissive) access model. When a user is assigned multiple roles, permissions do not combine into a cumulative set of privileges. Instead, restrictive...
13 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Improve maintenance windows to see if more than one window is active for a specific resource.

Weeknight maintenance window Sunday-Friday 20.00-05:00 Weekend maintenance window Saturday & Sunday whole days Both these maintenance windows have the same scope. The problem occurs when one maintenance window expires and we get incidents crea...
21 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Enable Partial Match Filtering for EUM User ID in Analytics

Problem Statement When filtering EUM Analytics data in the Website/Page Loads view, the User > ID field only supports exact-match operators (equals, does not equal, is present, is not present). This limitation prevents us from performing partia...
26 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Mapping dependency/topology between application services and MS SQL DBs when DBs are monitored remotely

We want to map dependencies/topology between application services and Microsoft SQL Server databases where SQL is configured using remote monitoring method (not local agent on DB host). Currently, the application-to-database correlation is not vis...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

Folder-Level Permissions Not Discovering Resources Across Multiple Projects

Having Instana supports only one GCP project per configuration is problematic from a configuration and management overhead point of view. The Instana documentation was not clear that sub-folders were not covered and has resulted in wasted effort i...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Planned for future release

Add ability to mark http status codes as errors though they are not in the 5xx range

Hi, Certain application owners in our organisation have the need to report error rates based on functional errors which are e.g. reported with a 412 (or other) http status codes. This is technically not an error and those requests are not marked a...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

Log Deduplication for Instana Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector

Many applications generate repetitive log messages within short time intervals. Currently, all instances of these messages are forwarded to the Instana backend, resulting in unnecessary disk space consumption, increased bandwidth utilization. The ...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

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