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Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
7 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Make the Extendible Domain editor accessible to Partners

Within our current experience using TargetProcess, at a lot of customers the capabilities of TargetProcess are extended with existing solutions to create new entities & relations according to the customer's needs. However, most of the time, th...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Remove the ability to add or search inbound or outbound entities from the Relations tab

Amex would like to remove the ability to add or search inbound or outbound entities from the Relationships tab, only keep the tab for viewing relations.
18 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 2 Future consideration

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...
2 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 ...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Integration into CMDB

ideally, Instana should have an integration with CMDB where information about these technologies and hosts are maintained. It will be efficient if Instana can read the CMDB so we can scope internal classifications for monitoring or alerting (Dynam...
9 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Ability to limit the relations tab for search & create

The relations tab feels confusing for some users. they press + to create a relation instead of searching the environment & some customers don't want to use this functionality in here but only from an integration standpoint. the request is as f...
18 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration