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Instana

Instana support Encriptation local password

We Have 25 cliente, Currently, all clients use Sentinel as their manager vault. Instana is limiting this to only accepting Hachicorp, and clients feel they are being forced to purchase Hachicorp. Clients are complaining because the data is stored ...
4 days ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Include Embbebed Azul Zulu JVM in dynamic update

I am writing to address a significant limitation regarding the Azul Zulu JVM bundled with the instana agent. Currently, the JVM does not update automatically alongside the agent. When vulnerabilities are identified within the JVM component, the cu...
7 days ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

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...
14 days ago in Instana / User Interface 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 ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

Provide the ability to have replicated datastores within Standard Edition

Provide the ability to have replicated datastores within Standard Edition. Today, when you deploy Instana, there is 1 copy of each datastore. This means that there is a single point of failure. If Elasticsearch gets corrupted, the entire environme...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

SOC1 Type2 Compliance for IBM Instana

This idea is to request SOC1 Type2 compliance for IBM Instana. For some customers, SOC 1 Type 2 compliance is a prerequisite; offerings that do not meet this requirement will not be considered.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Security and Compliance Not under consideration

Ability to have Multi-Metric Smart Alerts for Applications. i.e Health Rules

Problem: Customers migrating from AppDynamics rely on health rules that combine multiple metrics (latency, error rate, throughput) within a single alert. Instana currently limits application smart alerts to a single metric. Proposed Capability: Al...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert Not under consideration

Improve Transparency of Built‑in Event Evaluation Logic

Problem Users cannot clearly determine: Difference between “fraction of requests” vs “all requests” Whether multiple thresholds are evaluated with AND vs OR Full evaluation logic behind built‑in events Requested Enhancement Explicit evaluation log...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Not under consideration

Add `stanctl plan` sub-command for planning stuff (e.g. upgrade, storage) in day 2

It’s a huge pain point nowadays when tying to do some day 2 operations at Instana backend. For example, when trying to upgrade to one desired version from current installed version, there might be a few “jumps”, based on the “upgrade from” info, t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 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...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance Not under consideration

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