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Search results: Instana

Request for Local User Registration (A feature to add users without requiring an SMTP server)

When adding (inviting) a local user to Instana, an SMTP server is required. In an air-gapped environment, there may be cases where the Self-Hosted Instana Backend does not have an SMTP server or cannot communicate with one. I would like to propose...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control Needs more information

Smart Alert based on memory or CPU usage

We have already the possibility to create smart alerts based on the ratio between usage and limits or usage and request, but there is not an option to create an smart alert based on a static amount of memory MB or CPU cores. So lets say, create an...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes Needs more information

Enable Bidirectional Integration Between Instana and BigPanda

The current integration approach between Instana and BigPanda is limited to one‑way communication using webhooks, allowing Instana to send or collect data unidirectionally. However, some customers(FIS, TIS, TSYS) require full bidirectional synchro...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Needs more information

Segregation of Duties / Principle of Least Privilege for Instana Backend management

The self-hosted Instana Standard Edition (Linux) backend should have actions requiring root authority cleanly differentiated from those for application management. This would allow application management to be delegated down to a service account, ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Security and Compliance Needs more information

Standard Edition preflight check must report all known prereq issues

Currently, when the preflight check is executed, it only reports a subset of the problems. For example, I ran the preflight check on a brand new machine Red Hat with nothing setup. This is what got reported. ⚠️ the host for installation type demo ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Needs more information

Smart alerts linked to performance issues

Smart Alert generation allows for triggers from latency, call, throughput, custom events metrics, etc. But not from the metrics or objects shown in the "Performance Tab", i.e: frozen screen occurrences. The idea would be to extend the trigger opti...
25 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Needs more information

worloads of particular hosts and their health/status

within a zone of hosts , it would be easier to select major hosts and group them together to check the status and health oh those hosts. i did not see that except for the concept of application services, we need a infra pov.
27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Needs more information

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Needs more information

Manage Metrics & Data storage - ability to delete data based on time, limit the time frame data retention

We have standard edition in our environment and recently we have an issue where the data file system is reaching 98% which causes performance issue i.e. we're unable to view events in Instana GUI. We should have the ability to delete collected dat...
28 days ago in Instana Needs more information

API-Based Configuration Export and Import for Backend Configuration Management

Hi, while defining a staging strategy for a highly regulated banking environment to deploy and run Instana backends, we ran into the challenge how to promote configurations from a dev/staging backend to the production one: Problem Statement As a c...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Needs more information

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