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Instana

Need the ability to add users to Teams and Roles prior to them logging in for the first time

The customers has many hundreds of users that will be accessing Instana. They are trying to automate the permissions for the users (Roles and Teams). Unfortunately, the APIs will not allow you to add a user to a Role or Team until the user has log...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

native integration with CyberArk

Instana currently lacks native integration with CyberArk, a leading enterprise privileged access management (PAM) and secret management platform. To support secure deployments and align with common enterprise security requirements, Instana needs f...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Integrations 3 Not under consideration

[GOV][INSTANA][PROD][PLATFORM] Feature Request: Automated Log Retention Policy for Instana

Hi Team, We are currently experiencing frequent disk utilization issues in our Production Instana environment. At present, we are relying on manual cleanup activities every month to maintain stability. While we have a temporary workaround in place...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Needs more information

Show "Memory Working Set Usage %" for CRI-O

Please add the metric "Memory Working Set Usage %" for CRI-O containers. I am aware that in the Instana UI, I can view the "Memory Working Set Usage %" metric for Containerd containers:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.310?topi...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Support for IBM MQ on native IBM i Agent

IBM MQ sensor support on IBM I agent locally.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1

Support for Apache Kudu

Customer needs support for monitoring Apache Kudu, which is also included in the Cloudera platform.
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Support for Apache Hadoop HDFS

Customer needs support for monitoring Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), which is also included in the Cloudera platform.
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Instana: Add a 'Maintenance-Aware' filter/toggle to the Events View to hide muted events"

Problem Statement Currently, when a Maintenance Window is active, Instana correctly suppresses notifications (Alerting Channels). However, the Events view continues to display all triggered events regardless of the maintenance status. During large...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Submitted