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Instana

Request for Local User Registration (A feature to add users without requiring an SMTP server)

When adding (inviting) a local user to Instana, an SMTP server is required. In an air-gapped environment, there may be cases where the Self-Hosted Instana Backend does not have an SMTP server or cannot communicate with one. I would like to propose...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control Needs more information

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Needs more information

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
11 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability Needs more information

SDK custom service tags

Hey. There's an ticket about this ideia: TS020581290 We want to separate the tags for the SDK custom service instead of bringing all together, cause a mess when creating dashboards and events.
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing Needs more information

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any restorability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
9 months ago in Instana / Integrations Needs more information

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor Needs more information

Smart Alert based on memory or CPU usage

We have already the possibility to create smart alerts based on the ratio between usage and limits or usage and request, but there is not an option to create an smart alert based on a static amount of memory MB or CPU cores. So lets say, create an...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Needs more information

Enable Bidirectional Integration Between Instana and BigPanda

The current integration approach between Instana and BigPanda is limited to one‑way communication using webhooks, allowing Instana to send or collect data unidirectionally. However, some customers(FIS, TIS, TSYS) require full bidirectional synchro...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Needs more information

Segregation of Duties / Principle of Least Privilege for Instana Backend management

The self-hosted Instana Standard Edition (Linux) backend should have actions requiring root authority cleanly differentiated from those for application management. This would allow application management to be delegated down to a service account, ...
2 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance Needs more information

Standard Edition preflight check must report all known prereq issues

Currently, when the preflight check is executed, it only reports a subset of the problems. For example, I ran the preflight check on a brand new machine Red Hat with nothing setup. This is what got reported. ⚠️ the host for installation type demo ...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Needs more information