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Instana

Enable configurable Instana backend and agent communication ports instead of requiring default 80/443 ports.

Many enterprise customers operate Instana in highly restricted network environments where standard HTTP/HTTPS ports such as 80 and 443 may be tightly controlled by centralized security or network teams. In these environments, customers may be requ...
4 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Submitted

Support Azure AI Foundry OpenAI-Compatible Endpoints in Instana LLM Gateway

We would like to request an enhancement to IBM Instana LLM Gateway to support Azure AI Foundry's Azure OpenAI-compatible endpoints, enabling customers to use their own enterprise LLM services (Bring Your Own Model / Bring Your Own GenAI). Azure AI...
15 days ago in Instana / GenAI observability Future consideration

Instana On Prem Swagger

For Instana SaaS and on-prem backends with internet access, users can rely on the IBM developer portal to browse and try available APIs. However, customers operating in restricted or fully isolated environments do not have that option, which makes...
5 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Support Violation Count-Based Alert Triggering Within a Lookback Window

Problem Statement Instana Smart Alerts currently evaluate alert conditions based on the number of consecutive evaluation windows that contain violations rather than the number of violations that occur within a specified time period. This limits th...
2 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Remove the 10 Application Perspective Limit When Creating Standard Alerts

Problem Statement When creating a standard (non-smart) alert in Instana, users are limited to selecting a maximum of 10 application perspectives through the user interface. This limitation creates operational challenges for organizations that mana...
2 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Expose Event ID Directly in the Instana UI and Event APIs

Problem Statement When investigating events in Instana, the Event ID is not readily visible within the event details displayed in the user interface. Currently, users must extract the Event ID from the URL when viewing a specific event. This creat...
2 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Allow Custom Events and Alerts to Evaluate Conditions Across Multiple Entity Types

Problem Statement Instana Custom Events currently require users to select a single entity type (host, service, application, etc.) when defining event conditions. Once the entity type is selected, all event conditions and metrics are restricted to ...
2 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Introduce Team-Level Administrator Role for Delegated Team Management

Problem Statement Instana currently provides team management capabilities only through administrative permissions that apply across all teams. Organizations with many application teams often want to delegate ownership and maintenance of specific t...
2 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Want popctl to allow provisioning of a 3 node cluster for synthetics

Instana delivered popctl with the ability to create and manage a single node k3s cluster and synthetic PoP. But, single node deployments lack scalability and it lacks resiliency. If there are problems with the single kubernetes node, then the synt...
3 days ago in Instana / Synthetic Submitted

Oracle DB Tablespace Usage Metrics Interval Change

There is a limitation in the ability to adjust the interval for Tablespace metrics collected by the default oracle sensor. This leads to high CPU usage and slowdown of performance which can ultimately interfere with regular operations.
23 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

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