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Parse User Mentions in Slack App Messages

Currently the Instana Slack App shows the raw mention syntax of e.g. <@U03D3BYCD16>. This makes it necessary to open the Slack message thread in order to determine the actual user being mentioned. It would be helpful if the Instana integrati...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Listen for Additional Slack Message Removal/Quarantine Events

Slack provides mechanisms for quarantining/hiding messages from the UI as part of their Data Loss Prevention system. This allows administrators to hide messages that are potentially sensitive in nature until they are reviewed, and released or dele...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Use Real Name Instead of Slack Username with Slack App Integration

The Slack username field is deprecated, and not user editable. Slack has since switched to using real/display names which allow users to update them over time (e.g. name changes as part of marriage). Switching from username to real/display name wo...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Integrate AWS Service Health Data into Instana

When the inciden happens, our client understand that is a regional incident or just specific node in their environment. So ingest the data from the Amazon Service Health and show it related component in the instana. https://health.aws.amazon.com/h...
31 minutes ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Need the ability to dynamically populate Teams access

The customer has the need for the access controls for Teams to be dynamically populate. The customer has strict naming conventions. Those naming standards can be applied to things like tags, application names, website names, etc. The expectation i...
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Agent startup should always use a local jvm if one is available within the agent durectory structure

Currently, when rolling out instana agents via automation, we have to explicitly unset JAVA_HOME to force the Instana agent to use the locally available jvm for the agent. We believe this should be the default that if an agent is available within ...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Improve Custom Service rules in the UI and the backend

Hi, We need to adjust the service naming for some services as the automatically discovered names are not allowing us to monitor the services in context of the line of business and production environment. Adjustable custom service rules - regex ena...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Want to be able to white list custom data being ingested

Due to our fair use policy, it is important for customers to be able to detect and control the data that is being ingested. For out of the box sensors, the data ingest is fairly stable and predictable. But, when custom monitoring is used, it can g...
about 17 hours ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Need the ability to track which API Keys/Personal Access Tokens are making API calls

Given that there are scalability issues with large numbers of API calls, the customer has the need to understand which people and which API Tokens and personal access tokens are running large numbers of API requests. That way they can identify whi...
about 17 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

System IPL Information after IPL to be updated on Instana

Our teams have a need for Instana to automatically retrieve and update key system‑level information from the HMC after every IPL. This would help ensure that system data remains accurate and up‑to‑date within Instana dashboards without requiring a...
2 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted