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Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

When SSO is enabled, feature to send invite email to add users should be disabled

Once SSO is enabled, in order to get access to application users need to be part of AD security group. But if any user (even outside the organization) is sent invite to join Instana, he/she can create his/her own password and can login to the appl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

ObjectServer HADR feature required to use failover pair as DASH/WebGUI HA source

Along with OMNIbus Core 8.1.0.24, DASH 3.1.1.9 and OMNIbus WebGUI 8.1.0.21 an ObjectServer can be used as DASH HA database source.Unfortunately only a single ObjectServer instance can be configured as a source which will be again a single point of...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

Adding the capacity to install new plugins/drivers for NAPALM

Currently the NAPALM module only supports what is the default for few vendors (Cisco mainly). But there are more networking brands and models requiring RIA integration as well. Example: Fortinet. It is not supported out of the box, but there are p...
4 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Delivered

loading the base-domain URL should forward the user to the tenant-unit.baseDomain URL for login

We learned from working on the Case "TS019337924 Different login experience", that the following behaviour is the status-quo for k3s selfhosted Instana (3.291.396-0): The URL https://basedomain.de (login fails in your env) is valid just after a fr...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Self-hosted synthetic pop deployment via stanctl - "stanctl pop up"

Implement`stanctl pop up` including k3s installation.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Delivered

Mike Hofmann

The instana kafka sensor is monitoring kafka with zookeeper config only. ZK is deprecated in future releases of kafka and will be replaced by kRaft. We have need to monitor a kafka/KRaft setup. This AHA request is a follow-up of case opened for th...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Kafka connection using username and password

It would be very useful to have the possibility for the agent to connect to kafka instances using username and password. This feature would help for better audit checks and security.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Display Values Directly on Treemap Visualization in Apptio BI

In the Treemap visualization in Apptio BI, the values are only visible when we hover over individual sections. This is inconvenient, especially when we need to capture or share the chart. It would be more effective if the values were displayed dir...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Delivered

Request for Multi-Domain Compatibility for SharePoint Environments in Instana

Instana currently lacks support for monitoring SharePoint environments spread across multiple domains, which is essential for BWI’s infrastructure. BWI operates a complex, multi-domain SharePoint setup, and without this feature, they cannot captur...
12 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Delivered