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Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 4 Delivered

Monitoring Tibco BW - metrics

Hi, Based on Request #24197 and Request #24185 Tibco BW (https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-businessworks) is not supported by Instana. We have all our business logic there and right now we do not have any way to monitor or trace it. Business wo...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 4 Delivered

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 5 Delivered

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Infrastructure / Logging / Other Tracers 4 Delivered

Support for Apache HTTPd in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Apache HTTPd, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
10 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

#EMEA #SPGI Add support for PHP 8.1

Durign a PoC with a public transport agency in Spain we have discovered that Instana does not support PHP 8.1, most of their develepment is based on PHP frameworks so not having this tracing capability for this version of PHP does not allow them t...
over 3 years ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 8 Delivered

Export data to CSV

Our users need to extract data from instana to generate report for SLA to our clients. So we 'd like to have a button "export Data" from the analytic view to get data. Regards
over 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

MSSQL Polling rate

Currently, the ability to control or set the polling rate in database sensors are available in DB2 and Oracle, but not MSSQL. The DB performance is impacted by having an aggressive polling rate, and we'd like to adjust it. This is causing high res...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Delivered

Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Delivered

Instana tracing supporting envoy >= 1.22

We want to upgrade to envoy 1.22 but as of yet instana does not provide tracing for this version. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-envoy-distributed-tracing-binaries#envoy-115-and-later
about 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered