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IBM ACE trace custom tag endpoint IP and port Telemetry

When you had trace in ACE 10 and 11 using user exit, you had the ability to have grouping and control of who invoked the APIs. When you switched to using opentelemetry ACE 12, you can no longer see that grouping. We want it to be incorporated agai...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

More than one subscription in a one Cloud Service Agents

In the documentation there is a issue to use one single agent for each Azure subscription as we are able to create a Reading Service Accounts for the whole Azure Tenant and have many subscrioptions; will it possible to configure an agent in order ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Provide initial REST API Token without going to UI to support seemless automation

Customers want to setup and configure Instana Backend and the tenant units in an fully automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Many of the configuration tasks (like e.g. configure RBAC etc.) can only done with Instana REST API ( https:/...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Enable host availability percentage (% Uptime) for a given time period

Calculating the host uptime percentage is essential, as it provides a simple yet critical metric that reflects how long a server has been available compared to the total monitoring period. This measurement is vital for assessing the reliability of...
4 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
7 months ago in Instana / Azure 2

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration