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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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Prevent an agent with a valid key from connecting to Instana

The customer requested an ability to centrally prevent a specific agent from connecting. "The customer would like to be able to prevent a specific host from connecting to Instana so that they can prevent unwanted use of the agent key or an unwante...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Instana Active User information in Instana itself

The customer would like to be able to get a view of how many daily/weekly/monthly active users are using Instana. Having a view on this according to role/group/team would also be useful.
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Future consideration

Ability to create custom events with more than one metric

Customer needs to alert on certain custom and build in metrics in combination with other metrics. Some use cases include the combination of custom metrics collected by Micrometer or Prometheus. Other use cases are to create "optimized/revised" ver...
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Create Application Perspective stuck in creating page if the user doesn't have Access to the APP

No description provided
about 4 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Is a defect

Support for MapR Kafka Streams Library for producer and consumer

No description provided
about 4 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Not under consideration

Profiler support for vendor 'Private Build'

Profiler does not work when the vendor is Private Build. Feature request is to allow users to specify that the Profiler should still attempt to operate against the runtime if the runtime is supported.
about 4 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

POC-Arlo - Libraries to help automate C++ instrumentation

The customer has a large monolithic app that comprises about 1/3 of their environment that is written in C++. They are aware that instrumentation via web trace sdk is possible but have declined to use this due to required code changes. If we could...
over 4 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Service Entity rules with an Application Perspective scope should only fire if calls in the AP are impacted

TL DR - the customer expectation when setting up a Service alert with an Application Perspective scope is that it uses the same KPIs that they see when viewing the service within the AP.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Alerts for endpoints do not contain details of the service they are part of

Service details should be included in Endpoint events when sent via Alert Channels. Without this information they can't route events to the correct team and want to use us as a key part of their alerting strategy.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

RBAC-Delegated administration

Separate permissions on access scope level should be introduced that allow/deny configuring application perspectives teammembers and their roles/permissions events ...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0

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