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Instana

Customer Request: Instana SaaS Usage Metering and Cost Forecasting Dashboard

There is a need to provide an Instana SaaS usage metering dashboard and a cost forecasting dashboard,with enhancements requested to reach a comparable level of functionality to what Dynatrace currently provides. Background for the Feature Enhancem...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Improve Geography view to allow view by states

By allowing the customer to have region/provinces as a deep view, they can use it as data for marketing or increase the MTTR by mapping regional providers/services/laws affecting the availability of their services. Right now, the customers is expo...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Extended Query size in On-Prem Backends

Instana at the moment only collects the first 4KB of a query. Expanding the query capture limit beyond the current 4KB for Self-Hosted Instana deployments would unlock significant value for both customers and our own troubleshooting capabilities. ...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 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).
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Add audit trail logging for Instana alert channel

Hi, While implementing Instana at a banking IT data center in Germany we discovered the need for logging the alert channel interactions that have happened. The automation framework already provides such an action history. We need exactly that for ...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert Under review

Enable Accurate (Non-Bucket-Aligned) Data Retrieval Mode for Analytics and Custom Dashboards

We request the introduction of a configurable option in Instana to allow accurate data retrieval strictly aligned with user-defined time filters, without internal bucket alignment, rounding, or visualization-driven aggregation adjustments. Current...
25 days ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Customer wants to have agents communicate with SaaS backend via a Gateway

Communication via proxy is not easily manageable: security people need to change security settings of firewall for every agent intalled.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure Under review

ActiveMQ Artemis - limit of 100 queues

Hi, We are using the Instana agent to monitor our ActiveMQ Artemis. We have more than 400 queues on our broker. Currently, the Instana agent is limited to monitor 100 queues. Would it be possible to increase this limit? Thanks!
2 months ago in Instana / MQ Under review

Show Metrics for the Number of Active and Closed Web Sessions in Instana Analytics

Instana currently provides visibility into web session data in the “Websites / Page loads” analytics view, but it does not expose metrics to distinguish between active and closed sessions or provide their respective counts. We request that metrics...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store Under review

Monitor cpu and memory for sidecar container (defined under initContainer)

starting kubernets 1.33, pods can have containers defined in two ways:- traditional .spec.containers - under initContainers with restartPolicy: Always. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/sidecar-containers/ " Note: In this example,...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Under review

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