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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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K8-Deployment Environment Variables from Kubernetes Secrets should not be visible in process Environment Variables

Introduction: --------------- Our enterprise company uses instana as a shared open platform for all our developers and teams. We recently noticed that some of the teams have visible secrets in the process views.Also, we use strict secret Filtering...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

Custom-dashboard filter

Hi, Currently a filter needs to be set on each widget of a custom-dashboard. It would be easier and more efficient if a filter can be set on dashboard level. Thanks for considering this feature.
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

PHP CLI Support Configuration in Instana-Agent

As an Instana user, I would like to have PHP CLI support configuration in the instana-agent, so that the PHP sensor always initializes without needing to rely on a running php-fpm process for auto-detection. This would be especially useful when tr...
12 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration

Increase app_data_short_term max. value

Our company is working with banks as customers. For compliance reasons we have to store all traces,logs,... for at least 3 Months. In you documentation there is a config attribute called "app_data_short_term". Your support told me the max. value i...
12 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Restricted read-only permissions for non-technical users of custom dashboards

As an Instana admin configuring access to non-technical users who use Instana only to view custom dashboards, I want to ensure that such users can only view specific custom dashboards and not be able to: Create new custom dashboards Duplicate exis...
12 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Windows .Net service getting discovered without adding package Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows

Windows .Net service should auto discovered in Instana once instana agent is installed in the host without any code instrumentation or without adding Nuget package this will help us to avoid new release.
12 months ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

instana ELK plugin is not working as expected if we use someother logshipper like vector

out setup Instana version : 241 Elastic version 8.2 Kibana : Stack Management 8.2.3 vector: 0.27.0-debian if I click on pod or container link as it launching the correct kibana dashboard without any logs as there are some issue in filter string it...
12 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

analytics - dynamic column width

We use Instana to log behaviour of mobile app. the issue is even with large screen, and small font, the browser cannot display properly the column, in analytics, custom events, or analytics - http request : because all column have the same size, e...
12 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Mount Point monitoring for Windows

We need to monitor Infrastructure metrics for Mount points in Windows.
12 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

For audit purposes be able to see user ids and last login on one screen

on user screen be able to see last login, also to be able to export user data.
12 months ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Future consideration