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Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
5 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Needs more information

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
9 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Future consideration

Request for Instana’s authentication function

The customer would like to request to enable the use of multiple (at least two) Azure AD tenants for SAML authentication IdP. Our customer is using two Azure AD tenants as the authentication provider. One is for headquarter, the other is for IT su...
4 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Under review

Publish version history for instana agent and k8sensor

When upgrading to a new version of the static instana agent we have no idea what changes there actually are in the new version. We would like to know what we're getting ourselves into, and to be able to chose whether to upgrade or not. Additionall...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

Session Duration Tracking in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide a way to determine the duration of a user session, either via the UI or API. This feature request proposes adding functionality to track and retrieve session duration, including the total time a user spends logg...
8 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Needs more information

Auto Profile support for AIX

Auto Profile support for AIX https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-profiles https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling From the above link: At the moment Aut...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Cross teams/areas 3 Planned for future release

Add CSP Report Endpoint

In order to maintain and improve the quality of the Content-Security-Policy we currently need to offer a self hosted solution for the CSP-Reports* To not have to implement a endpoint on ourself, where to send CSP Reports, an Endpoint provided by I...
11 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

Map Groups with SAML (Okta)

We have SSO setup for the Instana Backend using SAML with Okta. We would like to be able to map groups provided by the Idp to Instana roles/groups. The ability to map our internal LDAP groups to Instana groups would give us the ability to apply ac...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 4 Future consideration