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Instana

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 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 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...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring Not under consideration

Support for monitoring windows machine which is part of EKS cluster

As of now IBM Instana only supports monitoring of individual windows nodes. Currently there is no support for monitoring windows node/machine park of EKS cluster of AWS and On-Prem We need the list of instruction to monitor the windows machine tha...
23 days ago in Instana / Agent 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...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 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...
17 days ago in Instana / Alert Not under consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / Backend Enablement 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...
5 months ago in Instana / Logging 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...
19 days ago in Instana / User Interface 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...
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control 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...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Not under consideration