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My ideas: Instana

Top List Widget issue - no data

An issue has been observed with displaying of the top list 50 widget. We are testing a self-hosted backend version 297, deployed in a k8s. With identical filter parameters but with the top list 20 value, the widget renders correctly. According to ...
19 days ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

IBM HTTP tracing module on Linux/ppc64le

We need to instrument HCL Commerce 9.1.19+ IBM HTTP Server v9.0.5.25, but as of today, this functionality is not enabled. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.315?topic=httpd-tracing-modules#ariaid-title7
22 days ago in Instana / IBM Power Under review

OpenStack monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For OpenStack technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only. (Like the implementation of Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
22 days ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

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...
25 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Under review

Improve filtering options in Custom Dashboard tables

Custom Dashboard tables in Instana have limited filtering capabilities. They do not support wildcards, short string searches (e.g., 2‑character suffixes), or basic operators like contains, starts with, or ends with.For use cases such as Oracle Gol...
27 days ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Add city-level filtering and subdivision visualization in geolocation analytics on the map

Currently, Instana allows filtering by country and subdivision (region/state), but not by city. Although city information is displayed, it is not available as a filterable dimension on the map. This limitation impacts our ability to perform detail...
28 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring Under review

Ability to aggregate and group Kafka topic metrics in a single dataset when building Infrastructure dashboards for Kafka Clusters.

When building custom dashboards for Kafka clusters using the Infrastructure & Platforms data source and Kafka Cluster entity type, it is currently not possible to select multiple topics in a single dataset and aggregate or group their metrics ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

Monitoring FrankenPHP

FrankenPHP is a new technology that improve php work and may replace it in the future and expected to migrate most current php application to it.
about 1 month ago in Instana / PHP Under review

Add a CVE report in json format into each new agent rpm

Our organisation requires us to keep software on latest or latest-1 release of all software.Due to the rapid release cycle for the static agent rpm (every 2 weeks), this puts a lot of pressure on teams to keep updating the product - we have thousa...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Under review

Add Instana instrumentation support for GeneXus HTTP client libraries (including Ron’s Http-Client)

Problem A customer application built with GeneXus is being monitored using Instana. The application performs outbound HTTP calls to backend services (Bantotal services) using the HTTP client implementation provided by the GeneXus runtime. During a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing Under review

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