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Instana

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    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.
    1 day ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Submitted

    Enable Bidirectional Integration Between Instana and BigPanda

    The current integration approach between Instana and BigPanda is limited to one‑way communication using webhooks, allowing Instana to send or collect data unidirectionally. However, some customers(FIS, TIS, TSYS) require full bidirectional synchro...
    2 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

    Need Air-gapped support for the k8s IDOT - Self-Hosted Custom Edition

    Since October 2025, the FIS customer has been working to enable distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry (OTel) integration to achieve end‑to‑end traceability across Istio, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy and related components. This capability is a critical ...
    7 minutes ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

    Expose DB2 JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values in Instana SQL traces (optional / configurable)

    For enterprise z/OS customers running mission‑critical DB2 workloads, Instana SQL visibility is functionally limited because AutoTrace, by design, does not capture JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values, rendering all parameters as ?. While d...
    7 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

    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...
    7 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

    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 5 hours ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

    Implement sensor for observability of applications developed in PowerBuilder

    PowerBuilder remains a crucial framework for massive, traditional ERP and financial systems in sectors such as government, healthcare, and banking. These applications are the backbone of many organizations, but they lack modern observability. With...
    2 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

    IBM OpenStack Sensor: Add configurable Keystone API path, HTTP/HTTPS protocol, certificate verification, domain support, and Canonical OpenStack compatibility

    The current IBM OpenStack sensor (com.instana.plugin.ibmopenstack) has several hardcoded defaults that prevent it from working with non-standard or self-hosted OpenStack deployments. The sensor appears to have been built primarily for Red Hat Open...
    2 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

    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...
    7 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

    z/OS USS Started Task Procedure for Host Agent

    Provide a method to allow for automation of Instana host agent under z/OS USS that allows for starting the agent outside of an SSH session.
    8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0

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