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My ideas: Instana

Instana (k3s-pods) CPU and MEMORY reservation(requests) at startup is much too high in relation to the real utilization. Results in high number of CPU/MEM at startup which is not used in running state. (Expensive resources)

We are using the self-hosted Instana Standard edition (k3s). More than once we have problems with messages like too less CPU to startup (pending pods). Several times we added CPU but what we see is that when it is running in production the utiliza...
15 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Under review

Customer Request: Instana SaaS Usage Metering and Cost Forecasting Dashboard

There is a need to provide an Instana SaaS usage metering dashboard and a cost forecasting dashboard,with enhancements requested to reach a comparable level of functionality to what Dynatrace currently provides. Background for the Feature Enhancem...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Improve Geography view to allow view by states

By allowing the customer to have region/provinces as a deep view, they can use it as data for marketing or increase the MTTR by mapping regional providers/services/laws affecting the availability of their services. Right now, the customers is expo...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Extended Query size in On-Prem Backends

Instana at the moment only collects the first 4KB of a query. Expanding the query capture limit beyond the current 4KB for Self-Hosted Instana deployments would unlock significant value for both customers and our own troubleshooting capabilities. ...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing Under review

Improve Blacklist command to include wildcards or RegEx when stopping Instana from instrumenting a process

The current Blacklist process only supports complete parameters. This is useful but fails to account for processes that contain only commonly used parameter or common processes that can refer to different paths or have different installation locat...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent Under review

Introduce a flexible activation delay or scheduled start time for Synthetic Tests,fully supported via UI, API, and the Terraform provider,to prevent premature alerting during long-term system onboarding and manual configuration phases.

Why is it useful? When onboarding new systems or environments via Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Synthetic Tests are typically provisioned at the very beginning of the lifecycle. However, a system is rarely "live" the exact moment its infrastructur...
2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic Under review

Event auto-closing though the threshold is satisfied

When an event is generated for breaching the threshold condition, event is auto-closed by Instana when there is network issue/agent not reporting data. Events should not be auto closed until Instana determines that the issue is fixed and threshold...
7 days ago in Instana / Alert Under review

Instana On Prem Swagger

For Instana SaaS and on-prem backends with internet access, users can rely on the IBM developer portal to browse and try available APIs. However, customers operating in restricted or fully isolated environments do not have that option, which makes...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Under review

IBM Instana monitoring for Mule Runtime 4.x.

Our enterprise integration platform currently runs on Mule Runtime 4.6.7 and includes critical workloads initiated through HTTP Listeners, Pollers, Schedulers and messaging queues. Instana currently provides infrastructure, JVM and partial generic...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Other Tracers Under review

Openshift Cluster Monitoring - Namepsace specifc

We need Cluster Registration & Metadata for specific namespaces excluding node information in Kubernetes Infra. The OpenShift platform team will not grant cluster-wide permissions (ClusterRole) required to deploy the Instana k8s-sensor via Ins...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes Under review

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