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Expose System I/O Metrics for Alerting and Custom Events in Instana

Instana already shows System I/O metrics on the Host Dashboard (Calls/s, Reads/s, Writes/s, Logical Block Reads/Writes), but these metrics do not appear in the Metrics Selector when creating Custom Events or Alerting rules. We request that these e...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
9 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
about 3 years ago in Instana / Metric Store / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Better integration of extended domain entities added by Solutions with native entities

There are some very helpful solution packages in TP that add new entities. However, these often integrate poorly with native entities. For example, we added the Product and Component structure which provides product versions. These add capabilitie...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Future consideration

Ability to flag/unflag comments

Summary: Currently, comments are used on math tasks to ask questions to the test team. Frequently comments/questions are missed, as they get buried in other comments/follow ups, or within threads. We are requesting a mechanism to flag/unflag selec...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 1 Not under consideration

Time delta between different entity states

Use case for illustrating the need for tracking the time delta between different activity states --> KPI/efficiency metrics. Currently we have several dates for an activity: I need a way to capture the following:* How long did it take between t...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Future consideration

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Planned for future release

It should be easy to identify if a Solution is made by IBM or by some other entity (e.g. partners).

It should be easy to identify if a Solution is made by IBM or by some other entity (e.g. partners).
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 1 Planned for future release