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Instana

Enhance Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Instana RBAC is currently too coarse. When a user is added to a role, they effectively inherit the same full permissions (e.g., view/edit/delete). We need more granular access control so we can apply least-privilege access. Current issue Roles c...
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Security and Compliance Submitted

Smart Root Cause Detection for "Agent Not Reporting" Events

## Executive Summary (Elevator Pitch) The current "Instana Agent not reporting" event doesn't differentiate between network issues, host failures, or agent process problems. During network incidents, this creates alert storms with hundreds of iden...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

The Instana agent’s config file currently lacks an AND operator for include_tags and exclude_tags

The limitation of the AND/OR operators for include_tags and exclude_tags in the config file is that they currently only support an OR operation, not an AND operation. This means that when multiple tags are specified in include_tags or exclude_tags...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Support for Azure Container Apps

My banking client develops their AI related application on the Azure Container Apps. We support tracing for some languages ( .Net or GO ) running on the Azure Container Apps, but it seems we don't support Azure Container App for getting metrics fr...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Azure Submitted

API token with limited unit scope needed which is not bound to user permissions

we are on the way migrating from on-prem to instana saas with OIDC authentication. In this course we need api tokens, which are limited to specific unit application data scope for programmatic access via instana api. UC example: Extraction of appl...
about 21 hours ago in Instana / API-C Submitted

To avoid unnecessary events close and open during Instana agent restart

When I'm testing Instana agent restart OR stop/start, I've found lots of unnecessary event closed and opened. Before Instana agent restarted/stopped, there are lots of opened/outstanding events associated with that servers. After I stopped/restart...
1 day ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Display an information about upcomming maintenance in X days

It would be very helpful to be able to inform our users directly via the INSTANA GUI that maintenance is scheduled in x days. This notification could appear on the login screen, but ideally, it would be displayed across the top of all INSTANA pa...
2 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

OKD Support for Instana

Our customer SGK have extensive OKD workloads and monitoring them is extremely important.
3 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage Submitted

No‑Cross‑Border GenAI Processing for Instana SaaS

Highly regulated customers in DACH (e.g., Public Sector) require strict guarantees that no data leaves the EU at any stage of processing. Today, GenAI inference in Instana SaaS is performed via a centralised service outside the EU, which may make ...
7 days ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

Add cluster name mapping/aliasing support to Instana ArgoCD sensor for OpenShift GitOps compatibility

Problem Statement When using OpenShift GitOps operator with Instana's ArgoCD sensor, there is a mismatch between the cluster name defined in ArgoCD (in-cluster - the default managed by OpenShift GitOps) and the actual Kubernetes cluster name in In...
9 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

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