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Log Deduplication for Instana Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector

Many applications generate repetitive log messages within short time intervals. Currently, all instances of these messages are forwarded to the Instana backend, resulting in unnecessary disk space consumption, increased bandwidth utilization. The ...
about 19 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

MSAD Monitoring without DHCP Server

Customer would like to monitor Microsoft Active Directory technology without DHCP server installation pre-requisite. Customer stated that, even if its possible to install DHCP on Domain Controller, they prefer not to do it, because possible ip con...
4 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Display all WebSphere Datasource Names and allow for multiple metrics for Websphere Servers

Widget with multiple metrics for WebSphere requires a “Datasource Name” dimension. What we want to achieve is the following view: Display all defined WebSphere Datasource Names and for all available WebSphere Server (or based on a filter) for mult...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Smart alerts linked to performance issues

Smart Alert generation allows for triggers from latency, call, throughput, custom events metrics, etc. But not from the metrics or objects shown in the "Performance Tab", i.e: frozen screen occurrences. The idea would be to extend the trigger opti...
14 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Needs more information

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Planned for future release

Enable Bidirectional Integration Between Instana and BigPanda

The current integration approach between Instana and BigPanda is limited to one‑way communication using webhooks, allowing Instana to send or collect data unidirectionally. However, some customers(FIS, TIS, TSYS) require full bidirectional synchro...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Needs more information

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Not under consideration

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
12 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

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