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Advanced search for the (Instana) documentation

I’d like to propose adding a modern Advanced Search to the documentation portal, allowing users to apply multiple filters similar to those found in many modern knowledge‑base sites.
7 days ago in Instana / Common Submitted

1.Add Report tab on Instana Webconsole for report creation and extraction . 2 Add schedule option for Report and Dashboard

We don't see any option to create Report , schedule and extract .Also don't see option for Dashboard schedule and extract Please Help to enhance Instana Webconsole with below suggestions. 1.Add Report tab on Instana Webconsole for report creation ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common Future consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

Message-queue-based Telemetry Data Ingestion

Based on TS022887888, in addition to the existing "agent >> telemetry data >> acceptor >> rest of the backend" flow, customer would like to send raw telemetry data from Instana agent to a messaging queue; then Instana backend to ...
25 days ago in Instana / Common Submitted

Increase the maximum viewable timespan; instead of a 30 day maximum make it at least 3 months

When troubleshooting trending problems, such as a slow memory leak or slow increase in resource usage, 30 days is often inadequate. Having to open multiple tabs for different 30 day increments is also insufficient as it complicates trend awareness...
27 days ago in Instana / Common Future consideration

Add Report tab on Instana Webconsole for report creation and extraction . 2 Add schedule option for Report and Dashboard

We don't see any option to create Report , schedule and extract . Also don't see option for Dashboard schedule and extract Please Help to enhance Instana Webconsole with below suggestions. 1.Add Report tab on Instana Webconsole for report creation...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common Future consideration

AWS RDS: 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
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

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.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common Future consideration

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

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Common Under review