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Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Monitoring of API Endpoints

Kindly consider implementing monitoring of API endpoints, considering all existing authentication mechanisms in place e.g. Bearer Token. We are getting requests from Business teams to onboard APIs for monitoring which use Bearer Token authenticati...
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

Build Synthetic Images with arm compability

Have it possible to run backend on arm instances
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Instana Active User information in Instana itself

The customer would like to be able to get a view of how many daily/weekly/monthly active users are using Instana. Having a view on this according to role/group/team would also be useful.
over 5 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard threshold and Y-Axis label

Currently the charts are miss understandable because of the missing y-axis label and the missing possibility to paint a simple line Threshold Line Make it possible to add a line or two in the charts to visualize good an not so good values. Maybe a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / User Interface 1

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
10 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Planned for future release

Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Let the license expiration notice be seen only by admins

Each year, as the license renewing period approaches, our users are worried about the notice "Licence expires in xx days". We would like this reminder to be seen only by the Instana administrators, to avoid unnecessary worries on the users' side.
11 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Needs more information