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Instana

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
about 1 year ago in Instana / WAS 0 Future consideration

Add possibility of creating public dashboard and exposing it without authentication

Hello Colleagues, we have a second request, please consider adding a functionality of creating a public dashboard with it's exposure without authentication. Thank you
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Future consideration

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 4 Future consideration

OAuth authentication for MCP server

Currently the MCP server uses API token authentication, it would be nice to have other auth methods available, mainly OAuth.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Future consideration

Allow limited access to Infrastrucure Smart Alerts

Currently only users with unit wide scope access on Infrastructure are allowed to access Infra Smart Alerts, but we'd like to delegate alert configuration to the teams responsible for their limited area only. This means Infra alerts currently have...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Future consideration

Use GPS for geolocation instead of IP address for more accurate location

For real user monitoring or EUM (end-user monitoring): would be great if we can use GPS on mobile device for more accurate geolocation besides using IP Address
9 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

Crash reporting in react-native

The mobile application developers can use the crash analysis feature in Instana to detect, understand, and fix the application crash as soon as possible. Today, Instana doesnt have enabled crash reporting in react-native and customers who have ena...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Allow for multiple criteria for disk alerting (pct and mb free)

We would like the ability to set multiple and criteria for an alert where multiple conditions would need to be met to trigger an event. Ex. Disk at or greater then 90 percent and less then 100mb free
2 months ago in Instana / Common 1