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Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade or Agent disconnection

Hello Team, I am recreating this request as we had discussion with backend team ( Jeison) to look into this idea. we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. ...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
9 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Future consideration

AWS Fargate Agent for Nuxt.js Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports the following Fargate Collectors: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargateWe would be happy if you could add support for Nuxt.js as well.
7 months ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Need to see whether an IBM MQ trace is a Put or a Get

The customer is monitoring an application where the first transaction that is monitored is a PUT onto a Queue within IBM MQ. The customer is using the Instana User Exit and it is set to DEBUG mode to force the Exit to trace all transactions. Curre...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support for PHP Sensor on native IBM i agent.

Any customer using PHP on IBM i would likely benefit from having support for this service.
10 months ago in Instana / IBM i / PHP / Tracing 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