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Platform feature flags should be turned on by default (VMware, Power HMC, etc.)

The feature flags to enable capabilities like VMware, Power HMC, zHMC, SAP, etc. should be enabled by default. By not enabling these, we drive up our support costs and drive down customer satisfaction. Now, we do need to think about the best way t...
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Future consideration

Improve Export Reports from Instana

Instana could be better if your reports has been simple. and let to integrate for example 1 2 or 3 ...N Lpar statitics in the same reporte CPU, ASP, Active Jobs, Subsistems, etc... because the current export reports are so simple, right now instan...
19 days ago in Instana / IBM i Future consideration

Request for Java Code Auto Profiling

Dear colleagues the same functionality was presented for PHP in the demo environment, our customer got understood it is applicable for every technology and was counting on it. Additionally, this feature has been specifically requested for Java Cod...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

Create Automation to Refresh and Update Access Scope of Instana Teams Every "N" Minutes

In large-scale environments where Instana Teams are used to logically segment access across dynamic infrastructures (e.g., Kubernetes, multi-cloud, ephemeral workloads), the resources assigned to a Team’s Access Scope can change frequently. Howeve...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure Future consideration

OAuth authentication for MCP server

Currently the MCP server uses API token authentication, it would be nice to have other auth methods available, mainly OAuth.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control Future consideration

CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Enable Native Trace / Call Payload Visualization and Aggregation in Instana Dashboards

Problem Statement Customers using Instana for application performance monitoring cannot natively visualize or aggregate trace/call‑level payload data (custom tags, request/response attributes, business fields) in dashboards. While payload data can...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

Ability to Save as PDF

On the main Host page it shows lots of usefull information CPU MEMORY NETWORK FILE SYSTEM PROCESS etc It would be good if their was the ability to save this screen directly to a PDF File to capture all the charts / graphs shown in there for the ti...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Future consideration

Custom Dashboard - Show Data labels in Pie Chart

We use Instana extensively across our enterprise and have been building custom dashboards with pie charts for various reporting needs. While analyzing the data, we noticed that the pie‑chart tooltip displays only the percentage value without the c...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Allow for time buckets on dashboards

When aggregating metrics over periods of time, Instana automatically adjusts and adds or averages metrics over different time buckets (for instance, for 1 hour, it groups in 1-minute, if we take 2 hours, 5-minute buckets, etc.)... If one could cho...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

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