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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...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / GenAI observability 0 Submitted

Provide a way to cleanup unwanted tags for otel

Hello, We noticed that otel dynamic tags when they reach a hard limit of 500, blocks the filtering of new tags. If there is a way to delete tags which are obselete then this gives more control to the user. Another idea is to set priority to the ta...
about 22 hours ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

extract the complete Instana device inventory—including each device’s first reporting timestamp—export it to CSV directly from Instana, and share the file via email

We received requirement from client to extract the complete device inventory from Instana, including the date when each device first started reporting. The report should contain all monitored devices along with their initial reporting timestamp. A...
3 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Submitted

Rest API to configure Agent run mode

We have a feedback from one of the customers who wanted to turn instana-agents off in bulk as a emergency shutdown in a situation where agents lead to production outage. (Happened in the past). None of the current REST APIs seems to have this func...
5 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Support Multiple SAML Certificates for Seamless Certificate Rotation

Currently, when rotating SAML certificates (typically done annually for security compliance), our organization experiences service downtime. This occurs due to the time lag between: Activating a new certificate on our Identity Provider (IdP) A...
6 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Downloading and executing Java files in synthetic monitoring.

Hello,We require a product enhancement in Instana Synthetic Monitoring to enable the controlled download and execution of Java files (JARs/classes) within synthetic monitoring scripts. This would allow the script to download a Java artifact from a...
7 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

I want the default display when a user accesses the Team configuration which I configured

Currently, Instana allows you to restrict the screen visibility of users based on the settings assigned to a "Team." For example, you can display only specified apps, such as the Application Perspective. However, the current default behavior is th...
7 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

[GOV][INSTANA][PROD][PLATFORM] Feature Request: Automated Log Retention Policy for Instana

Hi Team, We are currently experiencing frequent disk utilization issues in our Production Instana environment. At present, we are relying on manual cleanup activities every month to maintain stability. While we have a temporary workaround in place...
10 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Needs more information

Events without RCA

Please clarify under which conditions Instana is able to determine the RCA for an incident. We are seeing similar alerts, some with RCA, and some without.
10 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Time-based activation of Events / Alerts (e.g. active only 07:00–20:00)

Currently, it is not possible to define time-based activation directly on Events (e.g. Smart Alerts or Custom Events), such as limiting them to business hours from 07:00 to 20:00. For many use cases—such as business services, non-critical systems,...
10 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted