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Allow multiple config files for the OTEL collector

As well as the regular tracing and host information collection, the config file contains all the log parsing and processing information for every log file that the collector must work. A customer I am working with who is looking to migrate from IT...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 4 Needs more information

Support for NetMQ

Customer is using NetMQ and would like insight into this technology. NetMQ is a 100% native C# port of the lightweight messaging library ZeroMQ. https://github.com/zeromq/netmq
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Needs more information

Smart alerts on Core Web Vitals statistics

It'd be useful to be able create smart alerts based on Core Web Vital statistics like "Interaction to Next Paint (INP)". Being able to create alerts based on these would open multiple possibilities to monitor web application performance. For examp...
27 days ago in Instana / Alert 2 Needs more information

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Needs more information

Built-in alert when a sensors password expires

Having a built-in alert that monitors when a sensors password expires will allow Instana to generate an event and enable us to take pro-active measures rather than waiting for someone to notice the sensor data is not coming in.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

Ensure alerts are reliably delivered even during temporary outages

Hi, At the moment when an event triggers an alert the channel doesn't guarantee delivery of the message or action and it even doesn't log what has happened of if anything happened at all. Therefore we request to improve Instana’s alerting mechanis...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

Instana Deployment on OpenShift Must Comply with RH ACS Policies — or Provide Clear Exceptions

When deploying Instana on OpenShift, the deployment should comply with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (RH ACS) policies. If full compliance is not technically feasible, Instana must provide transparent explanations of the gaps and rationale, so...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Needs more information

Shorter Grace Period for SmartAlerts

Currently, the shortest configurable Grace Period in SmartAlerts is 10 min (a lot longer compared with Custom Events, which have a minimum lapse of 5 sec). We'd like to have shorter Grace Period options when configuring SmartAlerts (5s and up woul...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Needs more information

Compress and store all metrics per day

This functionality provides a correct and reliable comparison of current to historical data (not based on extrapolations). Preserve the results as compressed metrics for all collected data per day. Extract the relevant statistics: count, average, ...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Needs more information