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Integrations

Support field selection and custom metadata in bulk dashboard APIs

The custom-dashboard bulk read currently returns a summary of each dashboard, while additional details are available only through an individual dashboard read. Please add a way to select or expand fields in the bulk endpoint, and support user-defi...
7 days ago in Instana / Integrations Under review

Enable Instana AI Features with Customer‑Managed LLMs

Currently, Instana already provides valuable capabilities such as incident summarization, which are extremely useful for daily operations and troubleshooting. However, the integration with large language models is tightly coupled to IBM Watson, an...
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations Future consideration

Query Builder built directly into the Grafana Plugin

Currently, when creating dashboards and alerts in Grafana and utilising the Instana Datasource (especially for Trace data), it is expected to provide a JSON tagFilterExpression Object for the query. This is a huge challenge and most users, especia...
20 days ago in Instana / Integrations Submitted

Enable migration for existing customers of Instana (on-prem or SaaS) from standalone Instana to Concert Core Observability (as part of Concert platform)

As we released IBM Concert platform, we are getting requests and interests from existing Instana customers to transition to Concert platform and move their existing Instana deployments into Concert platform (which now includes Concert Core Observa...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations Under review

Critical OTEL Connectors missing in IDOT

Current IDOT v1.320.3 which is latest and stable, we see there are no connectors available to use for transforming processed data into metrics. >instana-otelcol.exe components >connectors: [] It is helpful to have the below connectors to be ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations

Extende the AWS metric streams to AWS MSK and ElastiCache

Hello Team, It looks like AWS Metric Streams currently do not support Amazon MSK and Amazon ElastiCache metrics. As a result, we're unable to ingest and monitor these services through our existing Metric Streams pipeline. I'm opening this Aha! req...
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations Planned for future release

Instana support for Grafana Private data source connect (PDC)

We have been working with the Instana product team and developers. We need the IBM-managed Grafana plugin to integrate with a Grafana private data source connect (PDC) agent. We need IBM to add the use of a Grafana private data source connect (PDC...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations Future consideration

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any restorability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations Planned for future release

Add an integration with a source code management/testing tools such as GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins to measure Four Key Metrics(DORA Metrics)

Background: In today's software development landscape, achieving high performance in delivering software is crucial for gaining a competitive edge. DORA(DevOps Reaserch and Assessment) Metric, also known as the Four Key Metrics, provide a standard...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations / User Interface Future consideration

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations Not under consideration