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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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define specific tmp folder

The client request the possibility to redefine the location of the temporary files. Use case:https://www.instana.com/docs/setup_and_manage/host_agent/on/linux/#temporary-files states that the location for temporary files is /tmp/.instana .As the I...
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Mapping of MySQL in Application Perspective - Service Naming Rules

my idea would be to create a service mapping like this:
{
"tagFilterExpression": {
"type": "TAG_FILTER" 
"name": "call.http.host" 
"value": "" 
"operator": "EQUALS" 
"entity": "NOT_APPLICABLE"
} 
"unmonitoredServiceName": "MySQL_" 
"description": ...
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Scope of the Smart alert are not based on Individual endpoints

trying to group alerts based on individual endpoints
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Removal of temporary files

I have the following feature request:1. if the Instana agent is stopped it should remove its temporary files2. If the Instana agent is started it should remove old temporary files. This can happen if the Instana agent has previously not stopped co...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

More verbose/readable audit logs in Instana UI

I would like more verbosity in the Audit Log with more detail of what exactly changed so that I can more accurately evaluate (or undo) changes made by users.
 IIRC this was mainly around 1) the use of IDs rather than display names and 2) vague eve...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Live SLI on Grafana

I am creating this Feature Request for our Customer. They want to have live SLI on Grafana as this is important for them.
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Alerts/Events details download option in Incident page CSV/Excel

The client would like to have an option to download a list of triggered Alerts/Events via an excel/csv file based on an applied filter. Use-case:To do more analysis like frequent alerts max impacted services and etc.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Managing group permissions separate from group members via API

The client would like to propose a feature request for managing group permissions through the Instana API without always providing all group members.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Display number of Active Servers for a respective service against time-series chart

Customer would like to monitor their ASG based EC2 instances auto-scaling activity and they want a metric to plot in custom dashboards against the time-series chart. They have attached a reference image which they used to plot in their previous AP...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic threshold is not available for Error calls in Smart Alerts

The client wants to use the Beta Smart alert feature in Instana and observed the Dynamic Threshold featureis only applicable for Throughput and Slow Calls and they want the same feature to be enabled on Erroneous Calls Error and Warning Logs andHT...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

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