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Instana SaaS must support Dual(Multiple) SSO in the same tenant as Dynatrace is supporting now.

My customer is using Dynatrace that supports Dual SSO, so they are using SAML via Okta for SSO of regular employees and Azure SaaS AD for SSO of partner employees both are having different email domains.However, I got answered from IBM Support tha...
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Provide an agent (fleet) management through the backend UI

Hi, The capabilities of the configuration.yaml and the ability to stack several of those files are great but when administering literally 1000s of agents in a tighly controlled production system this proves to be very labour intensive and error pr...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Ability to disable all sensors and discovery, and only enable those that we require

Our requirement: We want the ability to disable all sensors and their discovery routines globally, and then explicitly enable only the ones we need. This would mean no discovery or idle checks for technologies we do not use, and no unnecessary sen...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Need ability to view which entities/processes/application/containers are consuming from the Pod's Mem/CPU Usage

Hi Team, Application is crashing due to increased memory. Want to view in Instana UI, where actual application memory and CPU is getting used. Example: Allocated memory for application is 6Gi, and 12 CPU. These usages want to see in instana UI Tha...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 5 Needs more information

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Monitoreo_sintetico_herramienta_captura

Para grabar la secuencia de transacciones de una aplicación de negocio web debe ser compatible con una herramienta como Playwright o similar que permita una facilidad de grabar, probar y generar un script de forma automática. Actualmente solo es c...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Future consideration

Add log message filter in Smart Alerts

Currently log message filter is available in Analytics, but not available in Smart Alerts for us to create an alert
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration