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Improve Location Selection UX in Synthetic Test Creation

During hands-on usage of Synthetic test creation, users noted that the location selection flow is not fully intuitive.Currently, users must explicitly click the “Add locations” button before they can see or search available locations. A more natur...
10 days ago in Instana / User Interface Not under consideration

Enhancing the RUM(Real User Monitoring) of Instana by the feature like Dynatrace's Visual Complete.

Currently, Instana’s "onLoad time" metric does not include XHR (XMLHttpRequest) or fetch requests that occur after the initial page load. The "onLoad time" is specifically defined as the time from fetchStart to loadEventEnd according to the browse...
11 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring Not under consideration

Need to be able to install and manage Standard Edition via sudo

Today, in order to install and manage Instana Standard Edition, you must login as root. Running commands via sudo does not work properly. Many customers do not allow users to log onto servers as root. All elevated permissions must be accessed via ...
29 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Not under consideration

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 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance Not under consideration

Instana SaaS must support Dual(Multiple) SSO in the same tenant as Dynatrace is supporting now.

My customer is using Dynatrace that supports Dual SSO, so they are using SAML via Okta for SSO of regular employees and Azure SaaS AD for SSO of partner employees both are having different email domains.However, I got answered from IBM Support tha...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control Not under consideration

Ability to view logs after agent loss

It would be interesting to be able to view an agent's logs from the SaaS in order to analyze the reason for its loss. Currently, logs can only be viewed when the agent is reporting to the SaaS, but it would be good to be able to analyze the last m...
6 months ago in Instana / Logging Not under consideration

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Go Not under consideration

Ability to disable all sensors and discovery, and only enable those that we require

Our requirement: We want the ability to disable all sensors and their discovery routines globally, and then explicitly enable only the ones we need. This would mean no discovery or idle checks for technologies we do not use, and no unnecessary sen...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Not under consideration

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