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Instana

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Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
12 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Change name of Apdex

Hi, We are using the apdex widget in the custom dashboards. Once the apdex is created, it's not possible anymore to change the name of the apdex. I understand that a clone is needed when changing the threshold or the scope. These configurations ar...
23 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

All tables should have resizable colums

All UI tables should be able to resize its colums in order to see more information. Example: there are some tables that show incomplete urls and other columns that only show a number, but all columns have the same size and cannot be resized to see...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 5 Future consideration

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Mobile version for Instana UI

Dear Colleagues, our customer asks for Instana UI suitable for mobile browsers or mobile applications for Android/iOS. When administrators far from PC it would help to reduce overall MTTR when they see incident details and perform preliminary inve...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Instana observabiltiy console - grant access to specific vSphere Datacenter

We monitoring multiple vSphere Datacenters, but we would like have option to grant access to view them separtely, same like for Kubernetes view
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Add the Ability to Create Alerts on Usage

Customer is using CRIO They are asking for the ability to create alerts on the following: Namespace: stg-cp4i-ace Pods: contains stg1* 1. CPU: 95% usage of cpu requests 2. Memory: 95% usage of the requests Checked with @Jayanth Putta and confirmed...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration

Extend Instana Terraform Provider to Support RBAC with Teams & Roles

Instana is introducing Teams and Roles for RBAC, but the Terraform provider does not yet support managing these entities. For large organizations, managing RBAC as code is crucial for maintaining consistency, security, and quality control. Extendi...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration