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Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration

Instana agent and ui-backend proxy settings with no proxy var or proxy config per backend

We are trying to send our instana agent to a 2nd backend on your saas for testing a feature. But our kubernetes agents are getting timeouts to your endpoint. I assume it has to do with our network setup and that our proxy has to be used to reach y...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Future consideration

EUM Reporting - make limit or disabling EUM traffic available as protection

operational requirment is 'protect monitoring against unwanted load' by EUM
7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
11 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Service Configuration

Exclude URL’s Mute requests (Still monitor request but don’t alert)
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

able to have an option to change EUM reportingURL in snippet in the UI.

Currently in Instana K8s operator the AcceptorUrls seem to be solely based on the baseDomain. This is then used also in the UI in EUM Website Configuration in reportingUrl and script src, e.g.: <script> (function(s,t,a,n){s[t]||(s[t]=a,n=s[a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

Dashboard threshold - marked out/backlighted

In Big Number widget add a field, that will include threshold. When threshold will be reached widget should be marked out/backlighted.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / User Interface 0 Future consideration