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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...
12 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

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...
12 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

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 Under review

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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Planned for future release

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...
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...
24 days 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
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Extend LDAP sensor capability to monitor IBM Security Directory Server 6.4

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Directory Server 6.4
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

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.
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

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...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Not under consideration

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