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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.
    10 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 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...
    15 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

    Single place to manage agent configuration

    Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
    4 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 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.
    8 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Future consideration

    Extend Instana Selective Monitoring by technology and process properties

    In its current form, Selective Monitoring requires changes to all applications / processes which should be monitored in an opt-in scenario. Making changes only only in the agent to select applications / processes would keep Instana specific config...
    23 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

    Add log message filter in Smart Alerts

    Currently log message filter is available in Analytics, but not available in Smart Alerts for us to create an alert
    16 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

    Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

    Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
    6 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

    Custom Dashboards: integrating Analytics' filters

    Not every client Instana user is an expert in the tools that it provides, and may not handle complex tasks with ease. Having the Analytics' saved filters as an automatic option integration in Custom Dashboarding would save a lot of time and possib...
    about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 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...
    12 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

    Need flexibility in RPM install to install the agent into a different directory

    Currently, the RPM based installs of Instana are hard coded to /opt/instana/agent on Linux. The custom has a rule that software MUST be installed into a different filesystem "/apps". They are not allowed to install anything into the /opt filesyste...
    22 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

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