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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.
1 day ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Submitted

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 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Custom Dashboards: integrating Analytics' filters

Not every client Instana user is an expert in the tools that it provides, and may not handle complex tasks with ease. Having the Analytics' saved filters as an automatic option integration in Custom Dashboarding would save a lot of time and possib...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Need to improve accounting/billing capabilities

I'm working with a customer that wants improvements in the accounting and billing capabilities. First, they want a very clear and easy way to see the projection for the month. Ideally, just a number that we report rather than having to flyover the...
9 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

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...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

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...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Native Instana Support for Oracle GoldenGate (On-Prem & OCI)

Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) is a mission-critical replication technology widely used in financial services, retail, and telco customers. Today, Instana does not have a native sensor for OGG, which forces customers to rely on custom scripts, Prometheus...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future 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
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 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
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 5 Future consideration

Ability to change the Log retention back to 7 days

After enabling logging to allow open-telemetry log, the log retention period can only be 30, 60 and 90days. Due to disk space issue, we do not need to keep extended period of time. Customer should be able have the ability to change this retention ...
16 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release