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Monitoring of API Endpoints

Kindly consider implementing monitoring of API endpoints, considering all existing authentication mechanisms in place e.g. Bearer Token. We are getting requests from Business teams to onboard APIs for monitoring which use Bearer Token authenticati...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Build Synthetic Images with arm compability

Have it possible to run backend on arm instances
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Synthetics tests versioning

It would be great to automatically version Synthetic tests, so that users can scroll, see changes, and if necessary revert to older versions of tests and their configuration
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Export Synthetic test details to PDF

We are interacting with multiple third-party API endpoints and we regulary face the question of availablility, response times, and error rate for these endpoints. Especially when analysing incidents we need to clearly see how stable and responsive...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Instana needs to send notifications/alerts when active directory certificates expire in OpenShift on Z

Without this notification, it's a manual effort to keep checking for expired certificates
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Synthetic monitoring enhanced permission

Viewer permission will be able to view the Synthetic monitoring configuration details that may contain a username/password to login to the application. Request to create enhanced permission or set up additional HBAC permission for this?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Functionality already exists

Can SevOne Ingest JSON records as flow records?

We are using the Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights and have found a way to write the telemetry data out to a NFS mount point. It some out in a stream of multiple changing files. Below is a example of the output of the file. It looks to give us much m...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 1 Future consideration