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Do not rewrite Instana Console UI URL to host_name in settings.hcl

We need to skip setting the host_name variable in the settings.hcl file. Whenever we are trying to login to the console using the IP address or the hostname or the loadbalancer URL, its redirecting to the defined value of host_name in the settings...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Prompt user to login (two use cases)

Customer would like to be prompted to either login after an expired session in UI or when he is trying to do something that requires that he is logged in. Perhaps this could be configured with Session settings. The problem is UI lets users do a lo...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Log rotation for cockroachdb

Configure on the rolling of logs under /var/log/instana/cockroachdb as its been consuming a lot of space since we implemented the backend server. We need something in the configuration where we could provide details on how long these logs needs to...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Get notification of updates & patches for on-premise installations

A customer running an on-premise installation will never know if there are patches or updates available for their Instana version. What happens if a CVE patch is published? Will Instana notify the customer that they have a vulnerable version and t...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Add the Old Values for changes in the Action Logs

This will help companies in regulated industries like Banking to feel more confident their data is secure. This is a requirement for PCI DSS Compliance.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

More verbose/readable audit logs in Instana UI

I would like more verbosity in the Audit Log with more detail of what exactly changed so that I can more accurately evaluate (or undo) changes made by users.
 IIRC this was mainly around 1) the use of IDs rather than display names and 2) vagu...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Support an alternate/multiple authentication methods

Our team/project, ISV is the underlying function behind w3id and ibmid. We would like to use ISV based SSO for authenticating to our tenants. In a scenario we have production issue with the ISV tenant that is used for the Instana SSO, we may not b...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under consideration

Provide more configurable items for Kafka topic settings in Instana self-hosted operator

During we deploy self-hosted Instana backend in kubenertes via Instana operator, the kafka topics will be created and configured with a couple of specific settings which are likely hardcoded, eg. retention.ms, segment.ms.When customers need to mak...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew

Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Extend backend APIs to export/import gracefully all possible configurations rather than just a few

As an AIOPs practictioner I would want to see the API's (only APIs not the UI) behind config-migration feature be extended to support the migration of all possible Insatna configurations. Currently, it is only limited to Applications, Websites, Mo...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent / Alert / API-C / Backend Enablement / Extend Capabilities / Integrations / Self Hosted / SRE 3 Not under consideration