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Instana

Support Cross Series Aggregation - SLO Infrastructure Count Metadata

We would like to request support for cross-series aggregation in Instana Infrastructure SLOs.The customer operates as a service provider (cloud services) and has contractual SLAs with its clients. The main requirement is to determine whether a mon...
5 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) Submitted

Start using VolumeStalledIOCheck as a possible metric to calculate EBS availability (SLO)

To improve accuracy of created SLO rules for this service type, the VolumeStalledIOCheck is one of the possible additional metrics that can help on this case. "This alarm helps you monitor the IO performance of your Amazon EBS volumes. This check ...
26 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Allow custom zone names for cloud services discovered by the AWS agent and Azure sensor in the Infrastructure Map

Cloud services discovered by the AWS agent and the Azure sensor are grouped in the Infrastructure Map by region/location (e.g. us-east-1a, eastus2), and there is no way to rename these zones or assign a custom one. For hosts with an agent this is ...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Add MQ object filtering support for MQ auto-discovery

Instana MQ auto-discovery currently discovers MQ managers without requiring explicit MQ configuration. However, MQ object filtering is only available for MQ managers configured manually under the MQ sensor. As a result, users cannot control which ...
3 days ago in Instana / MQ Submitted

Custom Script Sensor

We request the ability for the Instana agent to natively execute scripts on the host and ingest their output as metrics — without relying on Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry endpoints, also with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined i...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent Functionality already exists

Support multiple group-by dimensions when adding dashboard widgets

We use a lot of StatsD metrics that are ingested as OTEL and when building dashboards it often helps to be able to group by multiple dimensions, including StatsD metric tags, to display our data. Sometimes it's not useful to only use one dimension...
4 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Additional US Managed Locations for Synthetic Monitoring

Since Catchpoint monitoring locations provide distributed vantage points across the global internet stack to test, measure, and isolate performance issues. We would like similar functionality with Instana by adding more managed US locations for sy...
4 days ago in Instana / Synthetic Submitted

Support field selection and custom metadata in bulk dashboard APIs

The custom-dashboard bulk read currently returns a summary of each dashboard, while additional details are available only through an individual dashboard read. Please add a way to select or expand fields in the bulk endpoint, and support user-defi...
4 days ago in Instana / Integrations Under review

Advanced search for the (Instana) documentation

I’d like to propose adding a modern Advanced Search to the documentation portal, allowing users to apply multiple filters similar to those found in many modern knowledge‑base sites.
4 days ago in Instana / Common Submitted

Email Alert Subject Customization

The email alert subject is currently not customizable with limited options provided only to prefix or suffix. The Advanced feature in the alert channel does not provide us the flexibility to design email subject format. It would be helpful to prov...
10 days ago in Instana / Alert Under review

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