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Support for PHP Sensor on native IBM i agent.

Any customer using PHP on IBM i would likely benefit from having support for this service.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i / PHP / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Need to separate owner group mapping to prevent locking owners out

Hello Colleagues, we have several customers who locked out owner's user account while configuring LDAP mapping. It is one time operation, but affects all enterprise customers and often causes questions, requires several attempts in self-hosted env...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 4

Instana observabiltiy console - grant access to specific vSphere Datacenter

We monitoring multiple vSphere Datacenters, but we would like have option to grant access to view them separtely, same like for Kubernetes view
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Filter conditions should be private / shared by certain permissions

Instana users can "save, edit, and delete filters". https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-filtering-dynamic-focus And it is 'shared' with all users automatically. But if a customer plans to accept Instana corporat...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

UI group info for users

It would be helpful for users to be able to see which groups he is a member of. When using SSO and group mapping, in order to troubleshoot issues this is very helpful. But at the moment nothing can be seen by regular users about their groups. For ...
8 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1

Instana - Add Group Descriptions

Today in IBM APM, we can add descriptions to user groups to give more information about what the user group is for. There is no way to do that in Instana today. Can it be added?
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Disable normal user login / automatically purge users from User DB

Customer wants to enable SSO. When they do this, they want to make sure that existing Instana users can no longer login with they email/password, and that new users can no longer create regular logins (only login via SSO).Once the user is deleted ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

Support for AWS Cognito User Pool Identity Provider (IdP)

We are in discussion with potential customers that want support for AWS Congnito User Pools. We already support several IdPs and this is a very popular one we currently don't support. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/cogni...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

API token for configuration only

Currently - when creating an API token, this token allows full access to monitoring data, including traces and potentially user data. Considering that API tokens are widely used in automation use cases and CI/CD pipelines it should be possible, if...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration