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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...
7 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 ...
28 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

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

Automatic canary analysis of deploys using golden signals.
about 8 hours ago in Instana / SRE Submitted

TRACE-COST — Map distributed traces to cloud cost per service path in Instana

Map distributed traces to cloud cost per service path.
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 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 ...
6 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

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.
7 days ago in Instana / Common Submitted

Instana (k3s-pods) CPU and MEMORY reservation(requests) at startup is much too high in relation to the real utilization. Results in high number of CPU/MEM at startup which is not used in running state. (Expensive resources)

We are using the self-hosted Instana Standard edition (k3s). More than once we have problems with messages like too less CPU to startup (pending pods). Several times we added CPU but what we see is that when it is running in production the utiliza...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Under review

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 ...
4 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 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...
12 days ago in Instana / Alert Under review