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Sync user deletion from Active Directory to Instana

When integrating Instana with Active Directory, both Instana and AD user accounts must be manually deleted when a user leaves the organization. If Instana could automatically remove users when they are deleted from Active Directory, it would reduc...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Services and applications should support opentelemetry logs

Application Perspectives (and Services) cannot currently display logs ingested from OTEL, even though the logs are mapped to a service. We raised support case TS020036806 which was closed with the advice to submit an Aha idea for this to go to our...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 0

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
over 1 year ago in Instana / Python 5 Planned for future release

Need to be able to define Adaptive Smart Alerts against Endpoints

While Adaptive Monitoring against Services is useful, there are many cases where it can miss key problems that are happening. Sometimes, only specific URLs are being impacted. Since the data is being aggregated to the service level, those problems...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Under review

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version, the workaround was to downgrade the lib to 10.5.0-2 Already discussed with Brock Shamblin I think we should either provide a support or mention this in the documen...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Tracing 0 Future consideration

More than one subscription in a one Cloud Service Agents

In the documentation there is a issue to use one single agent for each Azure subscription as we are able to create a Reading Service Accounts for the whole Azure Tenant and have many subscrioptions; will it possible to configure an agent in order ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 5 Future consideration

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration