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Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
7 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability 1 Submitted

Provide ability to read Prometheus Metrics with Bearer token

Hi Team, We are trying to retrieve prometheus metrics in instana UI which are authenticated with bearer token. We followed below configuration, but it's not working, let us know is any other changes required com.instana.plugin.prometheus: poll_rat...
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 1 Submitted

Add MariaDB Driver Support

The main reason for requesting support for the MariaDB driver is that Prisma’s new driver model (introduced in recent releases) has moved away from the Rust query engine to a new query compiler (client engine) that uses query adapters (https://www...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted

Enable Instana integrations to IBM z/VM

zVM is an IBM Enterprise grade hypervisor and there is currently no way to get performance metrices into Insana. Currently zVM can collect metrics from PERFSVM and send them to InfluxDB which is in turn integrated into Grafana via a product they c...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Enhance IBM i (AS/400) dashboard capabilities for Active Subsystems, Jobs, History Log, and Journal Details.

We have a banking customer running critical workloads on IBM i (AS/400). Instana already collects the required IBM i metrics and supports Events/Alerts, however we are currently blocked from delivering custom dashboard capabilities for IBM i orien...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Instana IBMi Host Discovery of IBM HTTP Apache Host Service

Currently, our customer is discovering all Springboot and WebSphere Services but we are not discovering their Apache Tomcat Services and stitching them in our Services Dependency Mapping. This is critical for our Worldpac to have End to End Visibi...
7 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Show "Memory Working Set Usage %" for CRI-O

Please add the metric "Memory Working Set Usage %" for CRI-O containers. I am aware that in the Instana UI, I can view the "Memory Working Set Usage %" metric for Containerd containers:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.310?topi...
18 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Backup and restore capability for all configured alerts and events

As an IBM APM V8 and IBM Instana customer, this request is to ask for a "backup and restore capability for all configured alerts and events" to support operational continuity, disaster recovery, and change management in large environments where hu...
24 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Ability to montior the agent mode changes due to separation of duties

As an IBM APM V8 and IBM Instana customer, this request is to ask for enhanced **agent mode monitoring and control** to support operational, security, and compliance requirements in environments with strict separation of duties. Requested enhancem...
24 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

In the case PHP app, It want to integrate Instana with DBMarlin for SQL analysis.

In the case PHP app, It can't integrate Instana with DBMarlin currently in PHP trace. Because, It don't show [Find SQL in DBMARLIN] in Instana PHP trace. Please integrate Instana with DBMarlin in the PHP app.
about 1 month ago in Instana / PHP 0 Submitted