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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Automated fallback from IBM-hosted monitoring locations

When IBM offers hosted/maintained synthetic monitoring locations. it might be helpful to provide automated fallback or automated verification of failed tests. For example, if a test fails from a monitor in a Virginia datacenter, retest from New Yo...
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

OpenSearch Support

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Show alerts using Mobile App

Options to view Instana Alerts using a Mobile App
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change Instana Tenant Names and Add Description

Need ability to change tenant names displayed without impacting monitoring of applications and add description along with tenant names in Instana Tenant Switcher page. Please Note : No modifications in the URL's is required as it would impact moni...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

About hiding the Managemet menu

For pods in production and disaster environments, there is a function that allows you to restart and reboot from the Management menu displayed on the pod screen of Instana. Since it is an environment that anyone can touch, the target was accident...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 4 Not under consideration

provide release marker time and scope focus

Currently when choosing a release in time picker the time focus is set with span around release time but selected scope is kept. It would be very helpful to be able to select also release scope and being pointed to scoped monitoring, e.g. the chos...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 4 Not under consideration

Website application monitoring "in-flight request"

Hi. We are using website monitoring feature but we noticed that request that has been started but not yet completed, a.k.a. a request in progress are not traced/visible. Is there any option to see those in-flight requests or if not could be this f...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

Enable Smart Alerts for Traces

This would be useful because there are certain scenarios where certain types of data can only be categorized by filters by trace level instead of call level. Currently alerts and smart alerts can only be setup to filter by calls and not trace leve...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 4 Not under consideration

IIS Reset dependency for .net framework application

For the IIS hosted applications as per the Instana documentation it is required to perform IIS reset to properly instrument application. We want to eliminate the dependency to perform IIS reset.
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Government System Use Warning

We have been going through our annual assessment for ATO the last few weeks and one of the artifacts that we needed to present is a screenshot of a “Government System Use” warning for Instana. I’m sure you have run across something like this in th...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration