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Instana

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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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Needs more information

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 5 Planned for future release

Add the Ability to Create Alerts on Usage

Customer is using CRIO They are asking for the ability to create alerts on the following: Namespace: stg-cp4i-ace Pods: contains stg1* 1. CPU: 95% usage of cpu requests 2. Memory: 95% usage of the requests Checked with @Jayanth Putta and confirmed...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
10 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Failed missing node should be displayed in the InfrastructureMap to attract attention

This is the request from the banking client after they executed the failure-recovery test of DB node. This request is not for how we can notified on the failure, but for improving the display of the Infrastructure map. -- During the test, they dis...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
9 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 5 Future consideration

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration