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Enabling and Monitoring IBM ACE Tracing for ISO 8583 TCP/IP Integration Servers

While IBM ACE delivers strong core integration and messaging capabilities, ISO 8583 TCP/IP transaction flows currently rely primarily on native logging and flow‑level diagnostics, which offer limited centralized observability and real‑time operati...
26 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Display all WebSphere Datasource Names and allow for multiple metrics for Websphere Servers

Widget with multiple metrics for WebSphere requires a “Datasource Name” dimension. What we want to achieve is the following view: Display all defined WebSphere Datasource Names and for all available WebSphere Server (or based on a filter) for mult...
27 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Automatically onboard new OpenShift namespaces

When new application namespaces are created in OpenShift, an agent restart is required for them to be recognized before instrumentation activity will commence. In an OpenShift cluster with 47 nodes, agent restarts can be a disruptive operation. I ...
24 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

Show Metrics for the Number of Active and Closed Web Sessions in Instana Analytics

Instana currently provides visibility into web session data in the “Websites / Page loads” analytics view, but it does not expose metrics to distinguish between active and closed sessions or provide their respective counts. We request that metrics...
2 days ago in Instana / Metric Store Submitted

Need better alert content

When Events trigger and alerts are send to end users, there is a need to have important information as part of the alert. For example, let's say I setup a threshold to monitor for sustained CPU usage greater than 80%. When the Alert is sent, it is...
3 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Need to be able to install and manage Standard Edition via sudo

Today, in order to install and manage Instana Standard Edition, you must login as root. Running commands via sudo does not work properly. Many customers do not allow users to log onto servers as root. All elevated permissions must be accessed via ...
9 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Condensed Application Perspectives overview for big environments

Hi, While implementing Instana at a major banking IT provider we face the challenge that we need to know the state of 60+ groups of banks in a quick overview. Using APs this is currently not possible. The health state is enough for us to flag grou...
12 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives Submitted

Add `stanctl plan` sub-command for planning stuff (e.g. upgrade, storage) in day 2

It’s a huge pain point nowadays when tying to do some day 2 operations at Instana backend. For example, when trying to upgrade to one desired version from current installed version, there might be a few “jumps”, based on the “upgrade from” info, t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

OpenLIT support for LLM application

Other APM tools like NewRelic, Datadog and Dynatrace now support OpenLIT for monitoring LLM applications. It supports OpenTelemetry-native auto-instrumentation to trace LLMs, agents, vector databases and GPUs with zero-code. It's more similar conc...
2 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability Submitted