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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Traces are not shown for a "hmsbatchscheduler" service when selected larger duration

add the historic data indicator to the dashboards to avoid the confusion.
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Arithmetic operations on dashboard widgets

The customer wants to be able to create a widget using simple operations (x % / + -...).One of the use cases is creating the widget displaying the count per minute so they have to divide the average by 60 which is not yet possible.
about 3 years ago in Instana 2 Planned for future release

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.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Custom dashboards metric selection improvements in the legend / tooltip

A couple of requests from the customer for enhancing the colors on Custom Dashboards:* Colors palette should stay stable: Currently a refresh in live mode can return a new color for existing metric lines.* Re-use colors across widgets: If a metric...
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Instana Agent should only bind to port 42699 on select private interfaces

We would like to stop the Docker agent from listening on port 42699.
about 3 years ago in Instana 2 Not under consideration

define specific tmp folder

The client request the possibility to redefine the location of the temporary files. Use case:https://www.instana.com/docs/setup_and_manage/host_agent/on/linux/#temporary-files states that the location for temporary files is /tmp/.instana .As the I...
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Mapping of MySQL in Application Perspective - Service Naming Rules

my idea would be to create a service mapping like this:
{
"tagFilterExpression": {
"type": "TAG_FILTER" 
"name": "call.http.host" 
"value": "" 
"operator": "EQUALS" 
"entity": "NOT_APPLICABLE"
} 
"unmonitoredServiceName": "MySQL_" 
"description": ...
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Scope of the Smart alert are not based on Individual endpoints

trying to group alerts based on individual endpoints
about 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...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

More verbose/readable audit logs in Instana UI

I would like more verbosity in the Audit Log with more detail of what exactly changed so that I can more accurately evaluate (or undo) changes made by users.
 IIRC this was mainly around 1) the use of IDs rather than display names and 2) vague eve...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration