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Personal API Token with same rights than the user to whom the token belows

We have been told by Instana support that users allowed to create their personal API tokens can access through the API to data that they have forbidden to access through the User Interface, which would seem to not be coherent at all. I would like ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Real User Monitoring / Synthetic 2 Delivered

Monitoring Weblogic - v14c not supported regarding IBM Instana documentation

Hi. Our big customer using Instana and core application on Weblogic. Recently they upgraded Weblogic ftom 12 > 14 but REGARDING Instana official documentation this is not supported: Currently supported versions are: 10gR3, 11gR1, 12cR1 and 12cR...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java 4 Delivered

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Delivered

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Idle Timeout should also consider user inactivity - not only when instana browser is hidden

At the moment the "Idle session timeout" you can set in Instana Authentication Settings only triggers when the Browser showing Instana UI is hidden (minimized to task bar). But it does NOT trigger when browser is left wide open but there is no Use...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered

Kafka Sensor: Support Kafka Kraft Deployments

In Kafka Zookeeper deployments are deprecated since Confluent kafka 7.5 https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-metadata/zk-production.html Even though IBM Instana Kafka Agent supports Confluent Kafka 7.7.1 according to Support Sheet http...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Delivered

Support Oracle Linux

We are a Financial sector company from Perú that has Oracle Linux Server (https://www.oracle.com/pe/linux/) as part of its production core infrastructure. It is important to monitor this technologies because we need to comply with auditing require...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Delivered

User/Idle Session timeout should make currently open page unreadable

This is to improve Instana Security Footprint. When Instana UI User/Idle Session timeout triggers, only a small red popup on top right is shown saying you need to reautenticate, but the currently open page is still readable , potenially exposing s...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control / User Interface 7 Delivered

Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 4 Delivered

When SSO is enabled, feature to send invite email to add users should be disabled

Once SSO is enabled, in order to get access to application users need to be part of AD security group. But if any user (even outside the organization) is sent invite to join Instana, he/she can create his/her own password and can login to the appl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered