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Add Kinesis Firehose Support to instaawsv2

We have a data ingestion application written in Go, which performs validation and enrichment before sending into a Kinesis Firehose endpoint. Although several other AWS services we use are instrumented automatically using instaawsv2, for Kinesis, ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Go Needs more information

Would like to be able to add an exception on a smart alert from a log message (not error message but log message)

We have a need to add an exception on a smart alert from a log message. I know you can from a error message, couldn't find a way to add via log message opened a incident TS022470818 to see if there was a way and was told there was not but to put i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert Needs more information

SDK custom service tags

Hey. There's an ticket about this ideia: TS020581290 We want to separate the tags for the SDK custom service instead of bringing all together, cause a mess when creating dashboards and events.
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 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

Enable Bidirectional Integration Between Instana and BigPanda

The current integration approach between Instana and BigPanda is limited to one‑way communication using webhooks, allowing Instana to send or collect data unidirectionally. However, some customers(FIS, TIS, TSYS) require full bidirectional synchro...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 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...
11 months 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

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor Needs more information

API-Based Configuration Export and Import for Backend Configuration Management

Hi, while defining a staging strategy for a highly regulated banking environment to deploy and run Instana backends, we ran into the challenge how to promote configurations from a dev/staging backend to the production one: Problem Statement As a c...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Needs more information

Wildcard support or dynamic time-series graphing for all top-consuming processes on AIX.

The customer monitors process performance on AIX servers. Currently, by adding combineTopProcesses to the agent configuration.yaml, Instana provides a static table updated at 30-second intervals showing the top processes. While this static snapsho...
3 months ago in Instana / Common Needs more information