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Support Multi-Cluster Kafka Monitoring from a Single Instana Agent

Problem Statement Organizations commonly deploy multiple Kafka clusters within a single OpenShift or Kubernetes environment for production, non-production, business unit separation, or regional isolation. Today, the Instana Kafka sensor does not p...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

Support for Gemma 4 model on vLLM

Dear colleagues, we have a customer, they use Gemma‑4‑26B‑A4B‑IT and are trying to integrate Instana with GEMM A4. Naturally, it is not OpenAI-style content array blocks LLM. So they try to use workaround with vLLM framework. Would be nice if we g...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

Add seasonality on service and endpoint level to Smart Alerts

Add seasonality on service and endpoint level to Smart Alerts.Currently(backend v323) alerting seasonality e.g. on throughput is only available on application perspective level.Please extend capability to service or even endpoint level.Thanks a lo...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Not under consideration

Enhance Dashboard Table Widget to Support Application Perspectives, Services, and Endpoints

The current Table Widget (Public Preview) supports infrastructure and platform entities but does not support displaying application-level entities such as services, endpoints, or application perspectives. Customers frequently want to create operat...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Needs visibility into unresponsive and non-reporting agents

In environments with thousands of agents there must be a way to notify administrators when agents are no longer "checking in" or reporting information. Identifying the problematic agents among the thousands of those that were reporting involved do...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

Allow Custom Events and Alerts to Evaluate Conditions Across Multiple Entity Types

Problem Statement Instana Custom Events currently require users to select a single entity type (host, service, application, etc.) when defining event conditions. Once the entity type is selected, all event conditions and metrics are restricted to ...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Planned for future release

Introduce Team-Level Administrator Role for Delegated Team Management

Problem Statement Instana currently provides team management capabilities only through administrative permissions that apply across all teams. Organizations with many application teams often want to delegate ownership and maintenance of specific t...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Allow Saving Filters and Analytics When Using Scoped or Contextual Views

Problem Statement Users are currently unable to save certain filters and analytics configurations when working within scoped or contextual views. During investigation, support indicated that the current behavior is not supported and recommended su...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities

Enable Partial Match Filtering for EUM User ID in Analytics

Problem Statement When filtering EUM Analytics data in the Website/Page Loads view, the User > ID field only supports exact-match operators (equals, does not equal, is present, is not present). This limitation prevents us from performing partia...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

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