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Instana

Need RPM install for IDOT OpenTelemetry collector

The customer has standard processes for installation. This includes the ability to bring in packages such as RPM packages into their repositories and scan the installation packages for security vulnerabilities. The IDOT self-extracting tar package...
8 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

BeeInstana‑Status im Instana‑Operator‑Log anzeigen

uring the deployment of the Instana backend, the operator log records the status of all databases – except BeeInstana. This creates confusion and hampers monitoring. Consolidate all database information in a single placeProvide full transparency d...
8 days ago in Instana / Logging Under review

Top List Widget issue - no data

An issue has been observed with displaying of the top list 50 widget. We are testing a self-hosted backend version 297, deployed in a k8s. With identical filter parameters but with the top list 20 value, the widget renders correctly. According to ...
23 days ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

IBM HTTP tracing module on Linux/ppc64le

We need to instrument HCL Commerce 9.1.19+ IBM HTTP Server v9.0.5.25, but as of today, this functionality is not enabled. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.315?topic=httpd-tracing-modules#ariaid-title7
26 days ago in Instana / IBM Power Under review

OpenStack monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For OpenStack technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only. (Like the implementation of Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
26 days ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Nutanix monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For Nutanix technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only (like the implementation for Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
26 days ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

API-Based Configuration Export and Import for Backend Configuration Management

Hi, while defining a staging strategy for a highly regulated banking environment to deploy and run Instana backends, we ran into the challenge how to promote configurations from a dev/staging backend to the production one: Problem Statement As a c...
30 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Under review

Improve filtering options in Custom Dashboard tables

Custom Dashboard tables in Instana have limited filtering capabilities. They do not support wildcards, short string searches (e.g., 2‑character suffixes), or basic operators like contains, starts with, or ends with.For use cases such as Oracle Gol...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Feature Request: Support for Legacy/Alternative MariaDB Authentication Methods in Sensor

We are requesting a feature update or backward compatibility support regarding the MariaDB Sensor. Following recent internal changes to the sensor code, our current environment is encountering errors which are logged every minute in the Instana ag...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Add city-level filtering and subdivision visualization in geolocation analytics on the map

Currently, Instana allows filtering by country and subdivision (region/state), but not by city. Although city information is displayed, it is not available as a filterable dimension on the map. This limitation impacts our ability to perform detail...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring Under review