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Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 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...
9 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 5 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...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 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...
4 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 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...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 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...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 4 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...
10 months ago in Instana / Go 2 Not under consideration

Disk space monitor for Windows System Drive rather than hard coded to C:/D:/etc - enable wild cards on specific drives (example disk space has to be specified per drive)

Disk space monitor for Windows System Drive rather than hard coded to C:/D:/etc - enable wild cards on specific drives (example disk space has to be specified per drive)
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Want to separate out the Delete permissions from the Create and Update permissions for key RBAC roles

In the past, the customer has had many cases where people and teams have accidentally deleted resources such as Applications. They want a VERY small number of people that have the ability to delete objects. Today, when going into the RBAC settings...
22 days ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Improve Instana SaaS by supporting "User sessions query"

Dynatrace provides the User sessions query with SQL-like methods It is a functionality to query and view various metrics in a table.
8 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability 4 Not under consideration