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On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 6 Needs more information

Support for Java library - EclipseLink 2.1

Most of clients uses JPA (Java Persistence API) caching using the implementation of the EclipseLink Library. By having the support of this library will improve the visibility and a better end-to-end tracking and the CPU/MEM metrics as well JDBC Ca...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Needs more information

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

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

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...
8 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability 2 Needs more information

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 6 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...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Needs more information

Windows Top 10 processes

Provide the ability to display top 10 processes by CPU/Memory much like the Linux agent can.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Needs more information

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 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, ...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 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...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Needs more information