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Adding script/ command to encrypt password for instana host agent configurations

Instana deployment: standard edition multi node adding a method to encrypt the password within the configuration file instead of using plain text password but using scripts/ commands not using hash vault or environment variable. Similar to the enc...
25 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Controlling instana default events (change, online, offline)

if possible to shut down some change/online/offline events similar to the control over default events in the Events page. To clarify this, controlling change/online/offline events to be sent to the alert channel and appear in alert dashboard but n...
25 days ago in Instana / Alert / Self Hosted 1 Needs more information

Exporting and Importing instana Events

It would be useful if we could have an option to "quickly" export configured perspectives/websites/events etc that we have set from Instana, maybe into a YAML/JSON/XML format, and then it can be imported again into an Instana interface. I think th...
25 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Request for Java Code Auto Profiling

Dear colleagues the same functionality was presented for PHP in the demo environment, our customer got understood it is applicable for every technology and was counting on it. Additionally, this feature has been specifically requested for Java Cod...
25 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

MQ sensor should open its local binding connection as MQCNO_ISOLATED_BINDING

On the case TS021288201, our client reported the issue that after MQ forced stop, Instana Agent prevent the restart of IBM MQ. 2/17 17:37:52:MQ force stop2/17 17:39:35:MQ start-> the following error AMQ8041S: The queue manager cannot be restart...
25 days ago in Instana / MQ 2 Functionality already exists

Install Windows Agent without administration privileges

Hi team, we would like to have the option to install the Windows Agent without needing to have administration privilege. Could you consider this, understanding this might limit some of the functionality that the agent provides? Thanks in advance, ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
7 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Improve Instana SaaS by supporting "User sessions query"

Dynatrace provides the User sessions query with SQL-like methods It is a functionality to query and view various metrics in a table.
9 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability 4 Not under consideration

Ability to change the Log retention back to 7 days

After enabling logging to allow open-telemetry log, the log retention period can only be 30, 60 and 90days. Due to disk space issue, we do not need to keep extended period of time. Customer should be able have the ability to change this retention ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Parse User Mentions in Slack App Messages

Currently the Instana Slack App shows the raw mention syntax of e.g. <@U03D3BYCD16>. This makes it necessary to open the Slack message thread in order to determine the actual user being mentioned. It would be helpful if the Instana integrati...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0