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Business Monitoring: adding a limited access to the user of a group for particular business processes

The customer Iveco wants that some users can see some business processes and other users can see other business processed. More or less we sould have a "limited acess" radio button in the group configuration like the application perspective.
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Planned for future release

Kafka Sensor: Support Kafka Kraft Deployments

In Kafka Zookeeper deployments are deprecated since Confluent kafka 7.5 https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-metadata/zk-production.html Even though IBM Instana Kafka Agent supports Confluent Kafka 7.7.1 according to Support Sheet http...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Web/App End User Monitoring: Custom Metrics: Enable Alerts Based on Actual Metric Values, Instead of Only Count of Custom Metrics

In our Website Monitoring using the INEUM SDK, custom metrics are recorded and correctly displayed on default dashboards. However, when configuring smart alerts, we are restricted to using only the count of custom metric events. We cannot create a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 2 Planned for future release

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
5 months ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

Create a new Presets button in the Time range Presets options for 'Last month' (or 'Last 28 days', something like this)

Simce Instana can show metrics up to 1 month why isn't there this kinda button in the presets. This can help with showing the 'Monthly overview' of the metrics f.e. in the Custom Dashboard section. Place where I imagine this idea to be developed a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
about 1 year ago in Instana / Python 5 Planned for future release

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
3 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release