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Instana

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Sync user deletion from Active Directory to Instana

When integrating Instana with Active Directory, both Instana and AD user accounts must be manually deleted when a user leaves the organization. If Instana could automatically remove users when they are deleted from Active Directory, it would reduc...
13 days ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

limit the editing permissions for "teams" and "roles" to the team user belong to

[1] select a team when inviting users same as role[2] limit the editing permissions for "teams" and "roles" to the team user belong to.we want to set an team administrator for each team, but the team administrator can also edit other teams, so we ...
13 days ago in Instana / Access Control 2

Agent restriction to SaaS Backend

In an Instana SaaS environment where application server owners can onboard agents to the backend: Mechanisms to restrict what agents are allowed to report to the SaaS backend. A process to detect and remove any rogue agents that have been onbo...
25 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Remove Limitation for `OR` logical operator When defining multiple metrics by pattern, only one rule is allowed to use a different matching operator from 'is'.

I believe, this functionality was by design when there is only one logical operator i.e., 'AND'. However, there was an introduction of `OR` logical operator recently between the rules/condition thresholds for metrics. It makes sense to restrict fo...
26 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Use GPS for geolocation instead of IP address for more accurate location

For real user monitoring or EUM (end-user monitoring): would be great if we can use GPS on mobile device for more accurate geolocation besides using IP Address
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

Native Instana agent collection of Nvidia DCGX telemetry and Nvidia appliances healthcheck

Following the guide on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-monitoring-gpu-public-preview we were able to bring some data into Instana using OpenTelemetry and prometheus format collection and processing of t...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 2 Under review