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Instana

Allow users to clone and customize built-in events

Allow users to clone Instana built-in events and modify their conditions, thresholds, and notification behavior, while keeping the original built-in event unchanged. Problem Built-in events do not always match operational requirements, and users c...
about 19 hours ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Enable Metric-Level Alerting for Hosts in Instana SaaS

Problem Statement Currently, Instana SaaS allows us to visualize time-series performance metrics on custom dashboards, including response time, latency, and error rate for individual hosts or infrastructure entities. However, when these metrics ar...
3 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

DEPLOY-SENTRY — Automatic canary analysis of deploys using golden signals in Instana

Automatic canary analysis of deploys using golden signals.
3 days ago in Instana / SRE Submitted

TRACE-COST — Map distributed traces to cloud cost per service path in Instana

Map distributed traces to cloud cost per service path.
3 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Allow custom zone names for cloud services discovered by the AWS agent and Azure sensor in the Infrastructure Map

Cloud services discovered by the AWS agent and the Azure sensor are grouped in the Infrastructure Map by region/location (e.g. us-east-1a, eastus2), and there is no way to rename these zones or assign a custom one. For hosts with an agent this is ...
7 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Add MQ object filtering support for MQ auto-discovery

Instana MQ auto-discovery currently discovers MQ managers without requiring explicit MQ configuration. However, MQ object filtering is only available for MQ managers configured manually under the MQ sensor. As a result, users cannot control which ...
8 days ago in Instana / MQ Submitted

Additional US Managed Locations for Synthetic Monitoring

Since Catchpoint monitoring locations provide distributed vantage points across the global internet stack to test, measure, and isolate performance issues. We would like similar functionality with Instana by adding more managed US locations for sy...
9 days ago in Instana / Synthetic Submitted

Advanced search for the (Instana) documentation

I’d like to propose adding a modern Advanced Search to the documentation portal, allowing users to apply multiple filters similar to those found in many modern knowledge‑base sites.
9 days ago in Instana / Common Submitted

Support Cross Series Aggregation - SLO Infrastructure Count Metadata

We would like to request support for cross-series aggregation in Instana Infrastructure SLOs.The customer operates as a service provider (cloud services) and has contractual SLAs with its clients. The main requirement is to determine whether a mon...
10 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) Submitted

Agent-side redaction of URL path segments before reporting to the backend

Problem Instana's secrets mechanism redacts query parameter values in the agent, before anything is sent to the backend. There is no equivalent for path segments. Any personal identifier carried in a URL path is therefore transmitted to and retain...
14 days ago in Instana / Logging Submitted

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