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Support Multiple SAML Certificates for Seamless Certificate Rotation

Currently, when rotating SAML certificates (typically done annually for security compliance), our organization experiences service downtime. This occurs due to the time lag between: Activating a new certificate on our Identity Provider (IdP) A...
2 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Downloading and executing Java files in synthetic monitoring.

Hello,We require a product enhancement in Instana Synthetic Monitoring to enable the controlled download and execution of Java files (JARs/classes) within synthetic monitoring scripts. This would allow the script to download a Java artifact from a...
3 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

I want the default display when a user accesses the Team configuration which I configured

Currently, Instana allows you to restrict the screen visibility of users based on the settings assigned to a "Team." For example, you can display only specified apps, such as the Application Perspective. However, the current default behavior is th...
3 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Monitorng Nutanix AHV - Monitoring of critical hardware events and virtual machine state

Many organizations want to move from VMware to Nutanix and these monitoring capabilities are fundamental for a Nutanix monitoring sensor, ensuring platform availability, stability, and early detection of issues. As a business partner, we manage hu...
17 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

nstana Agent Operator: Missing Required Images, Incorrect Tag Usage, and No Offline Image Selection in Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog for Air‑Gapped OpenShift Environments

BWI reported that the Instana Agent Operator from the Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog cannot be deployed successfully in air‑gapped OpenShift environments due to several concrete technical issues. Two required container images are missing from ...
8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Multiple Tags at Object Level

Can IBM please add the option to allow multiple Tags to be associated with Objects at an Object level not Agent level, for example MQ Queue Managers / Ace Integration Servers . This is required on a large enterprise to allow custom dashboards to e...
13 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Submitted

Instana: Add a 'Maintenance-Aware' filter/toggle to the Events View to hide muted events"

Problem Statement Currently, when a Maintenance Window is active, Instana correctly suppresses notifications (Alerting Channels). However, the Events view continues to display all triggered events regardless of the maintenance status. During large...
7 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Submitted

Regarding Monitoring of Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on a Single Server

In terms of PostgreSQL monitoring, if a single instance contains multiple databases, it is possible to monitor all databases. However, my understanding is that it is not possible to monitor multiple instances when there are several instances on a ...
16 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Add Smart Alert Support for Container “Memory Usage Percentage” Metric

We would like to submit an enhancement request on behalf of Sobeys, who are actively using Instana to monitor their containerized applications running on Kubernetes/OpenShift. Enhancement Needed Add support for the metric “Container Memory Usage P...
9 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Windows Top 10 processes

Provide the ability to display top 10 processes by CPU/Memory much like the Linux agent can.
15 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted