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Show which events were suppressed during maintenance

Dear Colleagues, our customer is heavily using automations for maintenance operations and request for visualisation of events which were suppressed from Incident creation and escalation. It is very useful during troubleshooting to understand if th...
22 days ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Show current time zone when setting Maintenance Windows

When configuring a Maintenance window in the "Change maintenance window" screen. There is a message under item 3: All dates and times are in "UTC". You can change this to local time in the User settings > General user interface settings It woul...
27 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Metric Explorer for Instana

Elevance Health has this capability in the Broadcom Wily tool and it was very convenient. It is lacking in Instana.
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Add support for MQ HA using VCS (Infoscale)

Since many enterprises use VCS (Infoscale) to manage HA for MQ, historically it has always been the popular option, it would be great for Instana to support MQ HA using VCS.
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ Future consideration

Enable Custom CDC (Change Data Capture) Channel subscription notification on Salesforce Input Connector node.

For one of the project requirements, we need an enhancement to the existing Salesforce Input Connector node to be able to subscribe to Custom CDC (Change Data Capture) Channel subscription notification. This subscription should be allowed when cus...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Future consideration

Enable Instana AI Features with Customer‑Managed LLMs

Currently, Instana already provides valuable capabilities such as incident summarization, which are extremely useful for daily operations and troubleshooting. However, the integration with large language models is tightly coupled to IBM Watson, an...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations Future consideration

Ability to suppress agent status monitoring issue alerts

In the instana portal, agent status monitoring issue alerts are currently triggered when certain packages cannot be fully monitored by the host agent. For instance, there may be a process that can be monitored in terms of utilisation, but full sta...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Want an option for automatic one-liner and Windows install in Infrastructure mode

When performing an installation using the automatic one-liner or the Windows installer, there is no option to setup the Agent in infrastructure mode. This can cause a number of problems. There are times when applications are sensitive to the RFH2 ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

DIsplay "child" items of alerts/issues in UI - show all issues within one application

Hi, When looking at the summary dashboard of an Apllication Perspective where a smart alert is configured and that alert is actually triggered for a specfic service or endpoint the summary will state a green issues box with NO ISSUES. For us a cap...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Improve UI Flexibility and Initial Navigation : Enhance usability by allowing column resizing and improving default navigation and discoverability.

Some UI elements limit visibility and efficiency: Table columns cannot be resized Certain data requires extra clicks to confirm Initial filter and navigation options may not be intuitive for first-time users Adding basic UI flexibility would impro...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

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