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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...
10 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 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 ...
7 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Support per-entity evaluation for Log Smart Alerts

Add an option to evaluate a Log Smart Alert separately for each matching entity, such as a service, host, or Kubernetes workload. When the log query condition is met, Instana should generate a distinct alert event for each entity that meets the co...
2 days ago in Instana / Logging Under review

Allow users to clone and customize built-in events

Allow users to clone Instana built-in events and modify their conditions, thresholds, and notification behavior, while keeping the original built-in event unchanged. Problem Built-in events do not always match operational requirements, and users c...
about 23 hours ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Need to be able to execute FIO benchmark test in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our valuable customer ir running instana in air-gapped environment and experience performance issue, we would like to measure fio performance, but can't execute command stanctl bm fio  because it tries to install fio package ...
1 day ago in Instana / Self Hosted Under review

Enable Metric-Level Alerting for Hosts in Instana SaaS

Problem Statement Currently, Instana SaaS allows us to visualize time-series performance metrics on custom dashboards, including response time, latency, and error rate for individual hosts or infrastructure entities. However, when these metrics ar...
3 days ago in Instana / Alert 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 ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Plain text email alert channel

Our on-call phone is serviced by At&T and we can not receive HTMLmessages. Is it possible to create an email alert channel that sends SMTP messages with the Content Type: text/ plain.
2 days ago in Instana / Synthetic Under review

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

DEPLOY-SENTRY — Automatic canary analysis of deploys using golden signals in Instana

Automatic canary analysis of deploys using golden signals.
3 days ago in Instana / SRE Submitted

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