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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...
9 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
7 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

Allow Admin View all Dashboards

BackgroundCurrently, when users create dashboards and mark them as private, administrators are unable to view or manage those dashboards. This limitation restricts visibility into the full scope of dashboards created within the environment, which ...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Needs more information

Include dashboards in Security Access configuration

BackgroundWe recently created a dedicated group to manage and restrict access to infrastructure-related information. This group has been granted access only to specific application perspectives and selected websites, ensuring that sensitive infras...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Restrict Visibility of Infrastructure Events

BackgroundWe recently created a dedicated group to manage and restrict access to infrastructure-related information. This group has been granted access only to specific application perspectives and selected websites, ensuring that sensitive infras...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Needs more information

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2

Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration