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Permissions - Configuration of Events, Alerts, Smart Alerts

We would like to prevent the user from deleting or disabling custom made Events, Alerts, Alert Channels made by other users and allow user to make their own.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert 1 Delivered

Mobile App metrics for Grafana plugin

Right now users are not able to get mobile app metrics from the Instana plugin in Grafana. This would be greatly appreciated to add this feature. We would like to be able to display mobile app data in Grafana for our business partners. Filtering o...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Real User Monitoring 5 Delivered

Add Support for admin token-based authentication for Kong

Kong Sensor does not support admin token-based authentication. In our implementation Authentication is header based i.e in header we need to pass kong-admin-token. Please add support for admin token-based authentication .
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 1 Delivered

Space to add description to the Charts in instana dashboard

We don't have an option to add a small notes/ description about the particular chart when we scroll over the chart. Only Chart title will not be feasible to explain about the chart to team members. Please help to add the useful notes space on cust...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

Oracle Multitenant support

We have various Oracle Server with Multitenant Container Database (CDB) and Instana with the Oracle database configuration show and monitor only the "system" CDB, not the PDB's. We want to know if this feature will be supported in the near future,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

add aws rds EBSIO% metric into Instana

If you add aws rds EBSIO% metric we can create an alert it
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Define reoccurring maintenance windows

Please offer the possibility to define reoccuring "maintenance windows". Usecase: Prevent getting alerts for process-restarts that are scheduled every night / every Sunday / on each 1. day of a month / …
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Azure AppService .NET Core tracing support

I would like support for Azure AppService .NET Core. Currently, only instrumentation of AppService for .Net Framework 4.5.1+ workloads is supported.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Delivered

Integration with Go - Fiber framework

Hi there. We are working on a new product and we are going live on 31st July. We are in need of an application monitoring tool in order to visualise the performance of the application. Instana is not currently not supported for web servers written...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Go 2 Delivered

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation. Instana injects a 12 MB jar file in the /tmp folder if pods in the OCP cluster. If the pods do not have enough space, then the pods may be evicted. By checking if there is enough space be...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Delivered