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Support Multiple SAML Certificates for Seamless Certificate Rotation

Currently, when rotating SAML certificates (typically done annually for security compliance), our organization experiences service downtime. This occurs due to the time lag between: Activating a new certificate on our Identity Provider (IdP) A...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Downloading and executing Java files in synthetic monitoring.

Hello,We require a product enhancement in Instana Synthetic Monitoring to enable the controlled download and execution of Java files (JARs/classes) within synthetic monitoring scripts. This would allow the script to download a Java artifact from a...
1 day ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

I want the default display when a user accesses the Team configuration which I configured

Currently, Instana allows you to restrict the screen visibility of users based on the settings assigned to a "Team." For example, you can display only specified apps, such as the Application Perspective. However, the current default behavior is th...
2 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

[GOV][INSTANA][PROD][PLATFORM] Feature Request: Automated Log Retention Policy for Instana

Hi Team, We are currently experiencing frequent disk utilization issues in our Production Instana environment. At present, we are relying on manual cleanup activities every month to maintain stability. While we have a temporary workaround in place...
4 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Events without RCA

Please clarify under which conditions Instana is able to determine the RCA for an incident. We are seeing similar alerts, some with RCA, and some without.
5 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Time-based activation of Events / Alerts (e.g. active only 07:00–20:00)

Currently, it is not possible to define time-based activation directly on Events (e.g. Smart Alerts or Custom Events), such as limiting them to business hours from 07:00 to 20:00. For many use cases—such as business services, non-critical systems,...
5 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Possibility to hide API tokens permanently after initial creation

Hi, API tokens in Instana can always be lookep up after creation and copied by everyone with the appropriate permissions. In our organisation there is a regulation, that access credentials or similar data needs to be placed in the company PIM syst...
5 days ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Support for Apache Kudu

Customer needs support for monitoring Apache Kudu, which is also included in the Cloudera platform.
6 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Support for Apache Ozone

Customer needs support for monitoring Apache Ozone, a distributed object store which is also included in the Cloudera Platform.
6 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Support for Apache Hadoop HDFS

Customer needs support for monitoring Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), which is also included in the Cloudera platform.
6 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted