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Alert on changes to Vulnerability exposures

Please allow for the ability to alert on changes in risk posture and exposures / impact of applications as vulnerability data is surfaced within Instana. The goal of such alerting would be to allow for quicker prioritization of remediation and fix...
2 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Allow for an RBAC role that controls viewing of vulnerability data

Today, vulnerability data is viewable to anyone who has access to an application perspective. For some organizations this level of detail may not be appealing to a wide range of users. Please provide a mechanism to allow enabling/disabling viewing...
2 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Allow vulnerability data to be published from third-party sources

It would be useful to not have IBM Concert required to perform vulnerability correlation. Please provide an API method to push vulnerability data from a customer's tool of choice into Instana for visualization and event metrics that are equivalent...
2 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Instana IBMi Host Discovery of IBM HTTP Apache Host Service

Currently, our customer is discovering all Springboot and WebSphere Services but we are not discovering their Apache Tomcat Services and stitching them in our Services Dependency Mapping. This is critical for our Worldpac to have End to End Visibi...
2 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Need to support HCD Datastax Cassandra configuration

Dear Team, at the moment Instana agent is not able to recognise HCD Datastax Cassandra configuration and it looks like the agent sees the container and JVM inside it, but doesn't collect metrics from Cassandra instance. this make a gap between cas...
7 days ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Support for Java library - EclipseLink 2.1

Most of clients uses JPA (Java Persistence API) caching using the implementation of the EclipseLink Library. By having the support of this library will improve the visibility and a better end-to-end tracking and the CPU/MEM metrics as well JDBC Ca...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Allow multiple config files for the OTEL collector

As well as the regular tracing and host information collection, the config file contains all the log parsing and processing information for every log file that the collector must work. A customer I am working with who is looking to migrate from IT...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 4 Needs more information

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Under review