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Increase speed of Clickhouse with SharedMergeTree table engines

Dear colleagues, we have several enterprise Instana customers who use IBM Spectrum Scale on premises and some others use Instana on cloud. While having an option of using block devices for clickhouse nodes is very general, it is not well adopted b...
30 days ago in Instana / Common Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common Under review

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 ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

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...
about 2 months 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...
about 2 months 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Common Needs more information

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? : ...
3 months ago in Instana / Common

Improve Custom Metric Discoverability and Descriptions

Problem: Metric names are long and unclear, forcing customers to use scripts to understand them. Proposed Capability: Friendly metric names Inline descriptions Plugin → Metric explorer UI Hover/tooltips explaining metric meaning
4 months ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

Expand & Clarify Documentation for Parentheses and Boolean Logic in Application Perspective Filters

Teams rely on complex AND/OR/NOT combinations and parentheses in Application Perspective filters to precisely scope services, endpoints, namespaces, and infrastructure. Today, there is no authoritative, detailed documentation on: How parentheses a...
4 months 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
6 months ago in Instana / Common

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