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Custom Attributes on Roles

We would like to add a custom checkbox to Roles for our use? Our intent would be to reference that Boolean field in reporting and other automation rules.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Not under consideration

Create New Role for Portfolio Admins

We would like to have a new role established that is able to maintain their portfolio(s) just like an admin role, but limited to their assigned portfolio. This role should help with decentralized administration of portfolio(s). This new role is on...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 1 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
5 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 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

Auto-Logout

It would be helpful if we could set an auto-logout after a specific amount of time.   Example: After a user has been logged in for 12 hours, force a logout so the user has to re-authenticate.
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 1 Not under consideration

Customer defined encryption key for data at rest

Have the option for customers to defined their encryption key for data stored at rest on INSTANA's SaaS Backends. For example, an integration with IBM Key Protect for IBM Cloud could do that.
over 3 years ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook, so that you don't have to open the entire list of IPs given by the instant support according to the region and then run the risk of adding more IPs without inform us and that the alerts do n...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Manually deleting specific traces from an application

We had a security incident at Instana, we found sensitive data in the traces of an authentication application. We are looking for a way to manually delete these special traces.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Independent folder permission

Now folders and lists are getting their access level only from parent and can ot be changed if there is a parent folder or list this makes it difficult to create specific lists to be shared with some individuals Highly recommended
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Not under consideration

Extend backend APIs to export/import gracefully all possible configurations rather than just a few

As an AIOPs practictioner I would want to see the API's (only APIs not the UI) behind config-migration feature be extended to support the migration of all possible Insatna configurations. Currently, it is only limited to Applications, Websites, Mo...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent / Alert / API-C / Backend Enablement / Extend Capabilities / Integrations / Self Hosted / SRE 3 Not under consideration