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Search results: Instana

Need to be able to install and manage Standard Edition via sudo

Today, in order to install and manage Instana Standard Edition, you must login as root. Running commands via sudo does not work properly. Many customers do not allow users to log onto servers as root. All elevated permissions must be accessed via ...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Need RPM install for IDOT OpenTelemetry collector

The customer has standard processes for installation. This includes the ability to bring in packages such as RPM packages into their repositories and scan the installation packages for security vulnerabilities. The IDOT self-extracting tar package...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

BeeInstana‑Status im Instana‑Operator‑Log anzeigen

uring the deployment of the Instana backend, the operator log records the status of all databases – except BeeInstana. This creates confusion and hampers monitoring. Consolidate all database information in a single placeProvide full transparency d...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Logging Submitted

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, ...
1 day ago in Instana / Security and Compliance Submitted

Enhancing MSSQL Monitoring

Customer would like to monitor; 1) Which database user or application connected to the MSSQL instance. 2) In the current top queries table, database user(s) which is running these queries is missing. Customer would like to have this data also in t...
1 day ago in Instana / Other Tracers Submitted

Shared Ethernet Adapter State Monitoring

Customer would like to monitor and create events based on "Network Shared Adapter State" of VIOs. For reference, you can take a look for ITM6 VIO agent "KVA_NETWORK_ADAPTERS_RATES.HA_State" attribute group. Customer exactly needs the same metric t...
1 day ago in Instana / IBM Power Submitted

Hour-Minute-Second-Based Analytics on Traces

Customer would like to do analytics on traces by not only with hour and minutes, but with seconds as well. Some huge domains of customer need "second-based" analytics, because hour and minute-based monitoring causes a big window to do efficient an...
1 day ago in Instana / Other Tracers Submitted

System State Monitoring with PowerHMC Plugin

Customer would like to monitor and create events based on the state of the "Systems" with the PHMC Plugin. CaseID: TS021577006
1 day ago in Instana / IBM Power Submitted

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...
1 day ago in Instana / Access Control Submitted

Instana Backendをsystemd管理できるようにしたい

現在、当環境にてInstana Backendを利用しておりますが、運用性および可用性向上の観点から、systemdによるサービス管理を実現したいと考えております。 つきましては、Instana Backendをsystemdで管理可能とするための設定方法、もしくは公式に推奨される手順やベストプラクティスについてご教示いただけますでしょうか。
1 day ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted