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Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Expansion of Portfolio to Korea Hosting(MS Azure-Seoul)

As per the link on the page below, KT has signed a strategic partnership with MS. https://news.microsoft.com/2024/09/28/kt-corporation-and-microsoft-take-giant-step-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-in-korea/ KT Cloud, a subsidiary of KT, has a plan to ...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Not under consideration

Add Comments to Price Book Rules

Adding comments to price book rules would make it easier to track the intended effects of each price book rule along with changes and adjustments made over time.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Future consideration

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
12 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Enable MSP Control Over Sample Dashboards During User Creation

In MSP and reseller environments, MSPs often manage AWS reservations and savings plans on behalf of their customers. Currently, the EC2 reservation sample dashboard is enabled by default for all newly created users at the customer level and cannot...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Future consideration

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

Please consider supporting non-us formats e.g. setting for deu-DEU formatting for metric display

Please consider supporting non-us formats e.g. setting for deu-DEU formatting for metrics such as Dropwizard metrics
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

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

Default Dashbaord Assignement at Scale

Customers need the ability to set default dashboards at scale, either globally for all users or by user group. The current system requires manual configuration for each individual user through the UI, with no API support for automation. Proposed S...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Future consideration