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Auto detect JMX values

Requested is a feature where we have auto-discovery and i.e. have an ability to select which Metrics to show/activate JMX params are very difficult to reach (many clicks needed)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Tracing support for APIGee Hybrid

The Apigee product is "Apigee Edge". We are using Apigee as SaaS so we do not know about the current version. Regarding the use case:Apigee is our central API provider, e.g. for our AppEngine Single Page Applications but also all of our Middleware...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Grafana plugin: Support regex in metric field

Hello, I would like to use regex in metric field in order to show one metric (e.g. Free pool size) for all applications in same graph/panel. Best regards, ldrascic
about 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

EUM Crash Reporting - Limit or disable sending crash report

We have currently roughly 10 M app user and want to use crash reporting funtionality.In this cause we are looking for a way to limit or deact end-user to send crash reporting e.g. by config, to limit overload of network and protect instana backend...
11 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 4 Not under consideration

Modify or Clone / Duplicate "builtin event"

The built event work in most of the cases but for some specific environment some values need to be adjust in order to avoid false positive. Instead of disabling the builtint and create a new one from scratch it would be nice to have a "clone fonct...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Vulnerability Scanning

We need to detect vulnerability scanning requests, ignore it and don’t alert.
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

• We can not create a custom event same same properties with built-in event.

Exp: CPU Steal Time exceeded – “Number of violations as a condition” property does not exist. we have to be able to recreate the builtin events so that we can create them using different threshoulds and such. some of the events does not meet our d...
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Not under consideration

URL based parsing

We need to seperate URLs into logical service groups. Our monitoring capabilities are depending on this feature
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Not under consideration