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PII Masking is required for collected Kubernetes log message in Instana SaaS.

My customer, LG U Plus started using App monitoring based on the platform, "Kubernetes". Instana agents are collecting data including Kubernetes log messages and sending them to Instana backend SaaS. The issue resides in Logs collected and saved, ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Standardize the position and behavior of the search bar across all views by keeping it consistently on the left and fully clickable, improving usability and alignment with common UI patterns.

This change reduces user confusion and friction by making the search functionality predictable, discoverable, and easy to interact with across the entire platform. Consistency in UI placement supports faster navigation, reduces misclicks, and alig...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Add a "PersistentVolumes" column to the Kubernetes Clusters view for quicker visibility and access to PV details and metrics

This enhancement would significantly improve observability and troubleshooting by making PersistentVolumes (PVs) immediately visible at the cluster level. Currently, users have to dig through multiple views to find storage-related information. Sur...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
9 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.
9 months ago in Instana / Azure 2

Adding events logged in the standard output / systemout logs in WebSphere Application Servers

Hi Team, We noticed that many of the core events like applications getting started and stopped which are deployed in WebSphere Application Server are not recorded in Instana backend either as an event, alert or log. Please consider adding such eve...
4 months ago in Instana / WAS 2 Functionality already exists

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

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