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No‑Cross‑Border GenAI Processing for Instana SaaS

Highly regulated customers in DACH (e.g., Public Sector) require strict guarantees that no data leaves the EU at any stage of processing. Today, GenAI inference in Instana SaaS is performed via a centralised service outside the EU, which may make ...
12 days ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

Improve visibility and clarity for “Unidentified Entity” Events in Instana

Problem Description In Instana, some events appear with the entity labeled as “Unidentified Entity”, even though the platform is still able to resolve and navigate to the correct underlying entity (e.g., host) when the user clicks the link. This c...
11 days ago in Instana / Common Submitted

Wildcard support or dynamic time-series graphing for all top-consuming processes on AIX.

The customer monitors process performance on AIX servers. Currently, by adding combineTopProcesses to the agent configuration.yaml, Instana provides a static table updated at 30-second intervals showing the top processes. While this static snapsho...
22 days ago in Instana / Common Needs more information

Support for additional AIX Error Types (Pending, Unknown, Info) and Classes (Operational, Undetermined) in Instana Host Agent

Monitoring AIX infrastructure using the Instana host agent. By configuring the aixEventsPollRate under the com.instana.plugin.host plugin in configuration.yaml, the agent successfully retrieves permanent/temporary error types and hardware/software...
22 days ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

Improve stanctl down behavior

We used stanctl down and rebooted. After system start gateway-controller and gateway pods were running. Then executed stanctl down again and got the following error: root@instanak3s1:~# stanctl down Do you want to shut down the Instana cluster? : ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common Submitted

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

Pop up notification for maintenance (including emergency maintenance)

Currently, popup notifications are displayed for new releases; however, no such notifications are shown during maintenance periods.We would like to request the following enhancements:• Please enable popup notifications not only for releases but al...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common Needs more information

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common Future consideration

Allow for multiple criteria for disk alerting (pct and mb free)

We would like the ability to set multiple and criteria for an alert where multiple conditions would need to be met to trigger an event. Ex. Disk at or greater then 90 percent and less then 100mb free
5 months ago in Instana / Common

Allow for 4 hour period before alerting (current limit is 120 min)

This is to allow longer observation of issues before alerting.
5 months ago in Instana / Common Functionality already exists

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