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Access audit logs to server to use in SPLUNK

Would like to have logs written to the server. As an on-prem customer, we keep tabs on the server and logs with Splunk. Go getting the audit log via the UI isn't the best solution for their use case.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Cross-account Cloud Run Agent

in the monitoring cloud run docs at some point it says You need to configure one Instana agent to monitor the GCP project that you are interested in. A dedicated machine needs to be used to monitor GCP resources. If you want to monitor multiple GC...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Grafana template variables

The grafana plugin doesn't allow to use template variables. can you consider adding support for it?
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Not under consideration

Data after retention period is not correct

The Unbounded Analytics is operating on the data-set that's in the data-store for the selected timeframe. When the timeframe is outside of the (full-granularity) short term window that is defined in the self-hosted configuration the results are im...
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Instana k8s as operator + customer file - Exclude namespaces

It definitively makes sense to provide a mechanism which allows users to exclude entities from monitoring based on annotations and meta data
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Not under consideration

Hostname details instead of service name in custom event alert?

The customer would like to see Hostname details in custom event alerts instead of service or process names.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Add an "export to CSV" button to extract information from instana

The customer would like to have an option to "export data to CSV" from the analytic view in order to extract data from Instana to generate reports for SLA for their clients.
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Agent / Sensor Releases with a stable tacked Released version

The customer suggested that we implement a stable tag with the rollout of our Agents and Sensor releases in a way : That enables customers to relay on a stable release without major Bugs or issues.
over 3 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Potential Problems Digest

a single location for viewing/reviewing anomalies is desired.Customer’s use case needs a 1-week look back
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Open ID connect - Group based access

The customer has integrated the Open ID connected to our self-hosted Instana. They would like to have the options for giving access to group-based access. Currently any authenticated users can be given access with Default roles. But they would lik...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists