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Merge/Group Availability Zones and Custom Zones on Infrastructure Map

For Customers it is beneficial to merge i.e. AWS services and EC2 instances in the group of the infra overview in Instana to understand quickly which hosts are relevant/heatly/etc. A couple of tickets was found with the similar request: https://in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

PowerHMC: Allow grouping systems based on location and display it in the infrastructure view

We plan to monitor multiple datacenter. We will like to group the systems based on location or customer and display it in the infrastructure view.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists

New Agent Key in case of leak or security concerns

As customer I want to ensure that when the Agent Key leaks, nobody can abuse the Key and do harmful things with it. To be able to manage (add, manage, delete) the Keys (Sub-Keys) inside the Instana UI would help to monitor and govern who has acces...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

Artifactory support

Support for getting Artifactory to work as standarized tool alternative to Nexus
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Functionality already exists

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

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

group of calls "Without log message"

They want the possibility to group the calls "Without log message" in Analytics.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

SSO and Groups

The idea would be that we configure the dedicated groups in AD and assign them to the corresponding users. Instana would have to use the group provided in the SAML request and map the user to the group within Instana.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Scope of the Smart alert are not based on Individual endpoints

trying to group alerts based on individual endpoints
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Removal of temporary files

I have the following feature request:1. if the Instana agent is stopped it should remove its temporary files2. If the Instana agent is started it should remove old temporary files. This can happen if the Instana agent has previously not stopped co...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists