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Select the authentication method at the Instana UI Login

Instana supports just one authentication method, this of course affects at Login and there is no other way the customer can select a different way to login, basically, if the current authentication method is broken for some reason, the customer ha...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted

Enable Selective Monitoring Support for Instana for Z (z/OS)

Instana for Z currently does not support Selective Monitoring using environment variables, causing excessive discovery and preventing targeted JVM monitoring on z/OS. Requesting an alternative mechanism (JVM args, config files, etc.) and documenta...
about 21 hours ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Enable URL/Hostname to be Supported to JS - Only url/path configuration is supported for now

The current EUM auto‑instrumentation issue is driven by unsupported selector filters specifically hostname‑based filtering. Since Tomcat auto‑instrumentation officially supports only URL/path match expressions, Need to enable to support for RL/Hos...
1 day ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Ability to aggregate and group Kafka topic metrics in a single dataset when building Infrastructure dashboards for Kafka Clusters.

When building custom dashboards for Kafka clusters using the Infrastructure & Platforms data source and Kafka Cluster entity type, it is currently not possible to select multiple topics in a single dataset and aggregate or group their metrics ...
1 day ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Monitoring FrankenPHP

FrankenPHP is a new technology that improve php work and may replace it in the future and expected to migrate most current php application to it.
3 days ago in Instana / PHP 0 Submitted

Add a CVE report in json format into each new agent rpm

Our organisation requires us to keep software on latest or latest-1 release of all software.Due to the rapid release cycle for the static agent rpm (every 2 weeks), this puts a lot of pressure on teams to keep updating the product - we have thousa...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Create Automation to Refresh and Update Access Scope of Instana Teams Every "N" Minutes

In large-scale environments where Instana Teams are used to logically segment access across dynamic infrastructures (e.g., Kubernetes, multi-cloud, ephemeral workloads), the resources assigned to a Team’s Access Scope can change frequently. Howeve...
3 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Documentation for the new Gateway API feature of Custom Edition on AKS, replacing NGINX.

The Kubernetes community has officially announced the retirement of the Ingress NGINX project, which directly impacts long-term platform stability and security. According to the Kubernetes announcement, Ingress NGINX will only receive best-effort ...
3 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Add Instana instrumentation support for GeneXus HTTP client libraries (including Ron’s Http-Client)

Problem A customer application built with GeneXus is being monitored using Instana. The application performs outbound HTTP calls to backend services (Bantotal services) using the HTTP client implementation provided by the GeneXus runtime. During a...
4 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units. Currently, when a user is logged in, they can only see one Unit at a time and have to continuosly switch back and forth between units. There are two reasons they want visibility across multipl...
4 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted