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Extend Instana Selective Monitoring by technology and process properties

In its current form, Selective Monitoring requires changes to all applications / processes which should be monitored in an opt-in scenario. Making changes only only in the agent to select applications / processes would keep Instana specific config...
16 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

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.
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 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...
6 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Custom Dashboards: integrating Analytics' filters

Not every client Instana user is an expert in the tools that it provides, and may not handle complex tasks with ease. Having the Analytics' saved filters as an automatic option integration in Custom Dashboarding would save a lot of time and possib...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

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Debe mostrar una secuencia en orden la capturas de pantalla en la interfaz de monitoreo sintético y debe capturar la pantalla completa y no solo una parte,
9 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard Panel - Persist with filters values

In custom dashboard I'm not able to hold/save the custom dashboard data with filter values. So, I'm asking for a change in behavior on the existing preview filter feature within the custom dashboard. Please refer support ticket and attached screen...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Time Based Monitoring

We have several Monitors which are timing based and trigger on Certain days/date and time. Currently Instana doesn’t handle these request
almost 2 years ago in Instana 0 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 ...
6 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Provide an agent (fleet) management through the backend UI

Hi, The capabilities of the configuration.yaml and the ability to stack several of those files are great but when administering literally 1000s of agents in a tighly controlled production system this proves to be very labour intensive and error pr...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration