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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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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

Add Instana to RedHat ODF sizer

Dear colleagues, please consider adding Instana to RedHat ODF sizer: https://sizer.ocs.ninja/ Thank you
8 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
28 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Ability to download Instana agents in Air-gapped Self hosted Standard Edition (K3S)

As of v287, the agent download fails in the self-hosted air-gapped standard edition. The only way is to go to internet and pull the latest agents for Instana agent repository OR mirror the repository to local environment. Given the access restrict...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Add sizing to Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, please consider adding sizing capabilities to Instana dashboards. When instana is running it has all the information to estimate current resource use and calculate how much storage required for current load, when critical storage ...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release

Change the Instana Logo on the Homepage and Login Page

Our customer would like to replace the IBM Instana logo on the homepage and login page with their own logo.
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Bi-Directional Turbonomic Integration for Multiple Tenant Units

Currently the Bidirectional Turbonomic integration only caters for one Instana target within Turbonomic. In this customer's environment, Instana monitors several OpenShift clusters, some of which hosts multiple environments (dev/test/sit) within t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

AzureApp service

As we could see, your Azure App Services are discovered and we are able to see the metrics. You were missing the tracing so we did the troubleshooting for that. We could see that our InstanaProfiler is in place and after checking the logs, there a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Is a defect

Instana fix pack upgrade directly from one version to any version should be possible

Currently we are using 1.239 version which is 6 months old than the latest version 1.263. Currently Instana doesn't support direct upgrade from one version to any version. We have to upgrade atleast 6 times to reach to the latest version 1.263. In...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration