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Ability to switch between versions of API documentation

The customer would like to have an ability to switch between versions of API documentation: https://instana.github.io/openapi/. Currently, we are able to see only the latest version without any possibility to switch to any other version.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control / API-C / Common 2 Not under consideration

Migration feature should not be visible for all

Currently the Migration feature can be accessed by any user logged into Instana. I was able to test and reproduce this behaviour on a local On-Prem install by enabling the following feature flag: configMigrationFeatureEnabled Any user can then see...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Not under consideration

Access audit logs to server to use in SPLUNK

Would like to have logs written to the server. As an on-prem customer, we keep tabs on the server and logs with Splunk. Go getting the audit log via the UI isn't the best solution for their use case.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Grafana template variables

The grafana plugin doesn't allow to use template variables. can you consider adding support for it?
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Not under consideration

Instana k8s as operator + customer file - Exclude namespaces

It definitively makes sense to provide a mechanism which allows users to exclude entities from monitoring based on annotations and meta data
about 4 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Not under consideration

Open ID connect - Group based access

The customer has integrated the Open ID connected to our self-hosted Instana. They would like to have the options for giving access to group-based access. Currently any authenticated users can be given access with Default roles. But they would lik...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

SSO and Groups

The idea would be that we configure the dedicated groups in AD and assign them to the corresponding users. Instana would have to use the group provided in the SAML request and map the user to the group within Instana.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Removal of temporary files

I have the following feature request:1. if the Instana agent is stopped it should remove its temporary files2. If the Instana agent is started it should remove old temporary files. This can happen if the Instana agent has previously not stopped co...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Managing group permissions separate from group members via API

The client would like to propose a feature request for managing group permissions through the Instana API without always providing all group members.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring open ports of the server

What problems / use-cases does the customer need to solve: The customer wants to check some ports which are not acting as an endpoint(which is not giving any response/ giving an error response ) with Linux netstat command in Synthetic Check.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration