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Instana

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...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 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...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Nutanix monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For Nutanix technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only (like the implementation for Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 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...
about 1 month 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. ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 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).
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

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 months ago in Instana / Metric Store Under review

Feature Request: Support for Legacy/Alternative MariaDB Authentication Methods in Sensor

We are requesting a feature update or backward compatibility support regarding the MariaDB Sensor. Following recent internal changes to the sensor code, our current environment is encountering errors which are logged every minute in the Instana ag...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Monitor cpu and memory for sidecar container (defined under initContainer)

starting kubernets 1.33, pods can have containers defined in two ways:- traditional .spec.containers - under initContainers with restartPolicy: Always. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/sidecar-containers/ " Note: In this example,...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Under review

Please build a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (CP4AIOps) running on Red Hat OpenShift.

We request IBM to develop a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (CP4AIOps) running on Red Hat OpenShift. At present, we use Instana K8Sensor together with the Instana agent to monitor OpenShift and workloads running on it, includi...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

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