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Instana

Add Kinesis Firehose Support to instaawsv2

We have a data ingestion application written in Go, which performs validation and enrichment before sending into a Kinesis Firehose endpoint. Although several other AWS services we use are instrumented automatically using instaawsv2, for Kinesis, ...
2 months ago in Instana / Go Needs more information

Improve maintenance windows to see if more than one window is active for a specific resource.

Weeknight maintenance window Sunday-Friday 20.00-05:00 Weekend maintenance window Saturday & Sunday whole days Both these maintenance windows have the same scope. The problem occurs when one maintenance window expires and we get incidents crea...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Needs more information

Would like to be able to add an exception on a smart alert from a log message (not error message but log message)

We have a need to add an exception on a smart alert from a log message. I know you can from a error message, couldn't find a way to add via log message opened a incident TS022470818 to see if there was a way and was told there was not but to put i...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert Needs more information

OKD Support for Instana

Our customer SGK have extensive OKD workloads and monitoring them is extremely important.
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage Needs more information

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes Needs more information

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any restorability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations Needs more information

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / GenAI observability Needs more information

Request enhancements to Azure PrivateLink integration

AWS PrivateLink already provides integration features. However, in the financial and industrial sectors, many users rely on Azure, and since private network connectivity is required for mission-critical systems, there are cases where proposals can...
3 months ago in Instana / Azure Needs more information

Wildcard support or dynamic time-series graphing for all top-consuming processes on AIX.

The customer monitors process performance on AIX servers. Currently, by adding combineTopProcesses to the agent configuration.yaml, Instana provides a static table updated at 30-second intervals showing the top processes. While this static snapsho...
3 months ago in Instana / Common Needs more information

Enable granular agent-level control to selectively enable/disable log collection and transmission in Instana, allowing customers to manage logging overhead

Why is it useful? Who would benefit from it? How should it work? CURRENT SITUATION: ------------------ In Instana , the Logging Feature operates in an all-or-nothing manner: • All agents continuously send logs to the backend regardless of the feat...
4 months ago in Instana / Logging Needs more information