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Custom dashboard: Text box widget with HTML tag support

The Text box allows freedom to add plain text content and HTML format support to style such as font size or font color to separate sections on the dashboard.  This is a common constructive feedback based on what I observe while working with c...
21 days ago in Instana / User Interface Needs more information

Secured PAN data in SOAP Request

The Secured PAN data is getting captured in the Instana UI Analytics page which is part of SOAP XML Request.
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface Needs more information

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes Needs more information

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 Needs more information

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / GenAI observability Needs more information

Request enhancements to Azure PrivateLink integration

AWS PrivateLink already provides integration features. However, in the financial and industrial sectors, many users rely on Azure, and since private network connectivity is required for mission-critical systems, there are cases where proposals can...
4 months ago in Instana / Azure Needs more information

Enable granular agent-level control to selectively enable/disable log collection and transmission in Instana, allowing customers to manage logging overhead

Why is it useful? Who would benefit from it? How should it work? CURRENT SITUATION: ------------------ In Instana , the Logging Feature operates in an all-or-nothing manner: • All agents continuously send logs to the backend regardless of the feat...
5 months ago in Instana / Logging Needs more information

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...
5 months ago in Instana / Common Needs more information

Mute alerts through "Application Perspective" as scope in Maintenance Window of Instana

Instana Maintenance Window has scope called "Application Perspective" where in the document says it mutes the alerts but when connected with product team, they say the feature hasn't been implemented. The synthetic tests provide the ability to be ...
6 months ago in Instana Needs more information

creating log level alerts directly from infra tab

in the log maps it would be easier to create logs directly from clicking logs to alert on , as smart alerts just give us the number of http calls .. we need log alerting
6 months ago in Instana / Logging Needs more information