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    Add a SELinux policy for the Linux Instana agent

    Currently the Instana agent rpm package does not ship a SELinux policy. This can create some issues depending on the host configuration. Moreover, if restorecon is run on the Instana agent directory, it will prevent the agent from running. A good ...
    about 2 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

    Improve filtering options in Custom Dashboard tables

    Custom Dashboard tables in Instana have limited filtering capabilities. They do not support wildcards, short string searches (e.g., 2‑character suffixes), or basic operators like contains, starts with, or ends with.For use cases such as Oracle Gol...
    8 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

    Expand Scheduled Delivery to other formats like CSV and JSON

    NMS' reporting already allows for them to be emailed in different, machine-readable formats. DI should be able to do so too for feature parity.
    7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

    Ability to show number of log ins per day and who they are

    Currently you can only see 'last log in date' for users which limits the reporting we're able to do We need to be able to see how active users are, not just their last log in date and also see where there are any spikes in log in activity due to c...
    8 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 2 Future consideration

    Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

    Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
    over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

    Require permission access on tile level under automation center.

    We require a more granular permission and security model within the Automation Center, specifically the ability to manage access at the individual tile level. Currently, access permissions within the Automation Center can be managed only at the pa...
    19 days ago in Concert Workflows 1 Functionality already exists

    Self-hosted: support OpenTelemetry Collector Fleet Management (OpAMP) incl. air-gapped

    ProblemInstana's centralized OpenTelemetry Collector Fleet Management ("Agent & collectors > OpenTelemetry Collector") is currently not available for self-hosted Instana. Support case TS023165244 confirmed this after investigation with Engi...
    19 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

    PostgreSQL sensor: support multiple instances per host on non-default ports

    ProblemThe Instana PostgreSQL sensor (com.instana.sensor-postgresql 1.0.55, agent 1.2.63) correctly discovers each PostgreSQL process on a host, but connects every discovered instance to the default port 5432. On hosts running several PostgreSQL c...
    19 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

    OpenTelemetry logs: support multiline log assembly (stack traces) in Instana backend

    ProblemInstana currently does not perform multiline log assembly for logs ingested via OpenTelemetry (OTLP). Multi-line entries such as Java/.NET/Python stack traces arrive and are displayed as separate log records, one per line. This makes errors...
    19 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

    Admin configurable Banner/Ribbon or pop-up message in GUI.

    It would be most useful to have the ability to have a crawling ribbon/banner on the top of the UI for users or a pop-up at login.  This would allow direct communication by Instana Admins to inform the user community of upcoming changes, maint...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

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