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Export of Dashboard with all Widgets included as PDF

Currently the data is deleted after a defined periode of time. Export functionality would help to create a comprehensive, persistant snapshot of a specific situation to document the current state, e.g. in simulations of production incidents on tes...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Planned for future release

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Enabling capturing synthetic calls

We noticed (with the support of a support ticket) that the option in "Configure Synthetic Endpoints" > "Auto-Detected Health/Ping Checks" needs to be enabled in order that calls from synthetic monitors are marked as synthetic. It would be usefu...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Distinguish synthetic calls

In the Analytics > Calls screen it's not possible to make a distinction between synthetic calls ("GET /actuator/health" for example) and synthetic calls that are coming from the Instana synthetic monitors. It would be great to have a filter pos...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
5 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Missing endpoints for logs on Instana API Service Catalogue

we have internal client's looking for logs search by API endpoints and its a missing content into Intana service catalogue. Instana API docs
13 days ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
13 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

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.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 5 Under review