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Need better alert content

When Events trigger and alerts are send to end users, there is a need to have important information as part of the alert. For example, let's say I setup a threshold to monitor for sustained CPU usage greater than 80%. When the Alert is sent, it is...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Leverage traceparent Header for Kafka Message Correlation

Using a commonly accepted header would better align with industry norms, and provide consistent convention for programmatic logging and correlation.
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Other Tracers Submitted

When scrolling through reports in BI and Cloudability Standard, keep the view tab frozen on the page.

It disappears when a user scrolls which can confusion for what view is shown, especially if a default view is attached, and the user is unaware of what the default view is.
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Support for Custom Alert Channels in Instana

Today, to integrate Instana with other tools we rely on webhooks. However, the target tools are often not expecting the Instana payload format, which forces teams to develop custom adapters to transform the data before it can be consumed. In our c...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Support if-then logic in custom metric

Would make reporting MUCH more powerful
about 2 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio BI Submitted

Need improved t-shirt sizes for Standard Edition

We need to improve our t-shirt sizing for Standard Edition. We need sizes that allow our sales teams and customers to choose the right architecture to meet their needs. There are a number of key requirements and reasons that we need this data. Our...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Enable Cloud Build API Workflow Support in GCP Platform

Currently, while creating workflows for GCP, the Cloud Build service is not available as a drag‑and‑drop workflow option due to the Cloud Build API workflow not being enabled in the platform. Cloud Build is a core GCP CI/CD service and is widely u...
about 7 hours ago in Concert Workflows Submitted

Observability Support for IBM QRadar SIEM Appliances Infrastructure Monitoring and Distributed Tracing for IBM QRadar

QRadar customers cannot observe their SIEM with Instana due to lack of official support. While a basic Docker Instana agent install on QRadar Community Edition successfully discovers infrastructure components (host, 7 Podman containers, 21 process...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Enhance Azure VM Auto-scale recommenadtion

Cloudability identifies Azure VMs as autoscale candidates but doesn't specify what the scale set should look like. This idea is to enhance autoscale recommendations to include more detail in the recommendation.
about 15 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Add the ability to rotate the Agent api key

Currently there is no way to rotate your agent's API key when using the SASS product, it'd be nice if it were possible to e be able to rotate it for security purposes
about 19 hours ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

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