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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 1 hour ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Allow ApptioBi reports to support view shared with a group of users

When using a Shared View, ApptioBI reports populate data as expected. However, when switching to a Group View, the report fails to load and displays the following error: "The user not authorized to access data version: #######" (The ####### repres...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Views 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

Allow for additional filter logic - combining attributes with OR as well as And.

In the current functionality, when filters are added, you cannot create logic that is (Account IDs = XXXX) OR (Account Names contain YYY). Not having the flexibility to combine data in this way results in creating additional business mappings that...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Cloudability View Definition improvement

As a Cloudability Admin I would like to be able to define Views based on the Payer Account Id, and other core fields so that I can define the views that my users need. My organisation has multiple Payer Account Ids, and I do need to use that field...

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

Need fully functional Tag-Based Views in Cloudability, using top-level account tags only (not resource tags)

When using a top-level tag view, the customers are unable to see Insights/Containers, Committment Portfilio, Committment Recs, or Committment Manager. Whne selecting any of the listed options, and error is thrown similar to this one for Containers...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Limit the cost data users can access to only the accounts they are responsible for, but still allow them the flexibility to create and manage views based on that restricted data.

Our goal is to limit the cost data users can access to only the accounts they are responsible for, but still allow them the flexibility to create and manage views based on that restricted data.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review