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Instana

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...
3 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Enable Instana AI Features with Customer‑Managed LLMs

Currently, Instana already provides valuable capabilities such as incident summarization, which are extremely useful for daily operations and troubleshooting. However, the integration with large language models is tightly coupled to IBM Watson, an...
5 days ago in Instana / Integrations Submitted

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. ...
7 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Db2 Sensor support env

One way to avoid storing the password in the agent's configuration file is to allow the use of environment variables. This allows the DB2 sensor to accept environment variables. YAML com.instana.plugin.db2: enabled: true local: - instance: db2inst...
1 day ago in Instana / DB2 Submitted

Instana support Encriptation local password

We Have 25 cliente, Currently, all clients use Sentinel as their manager vault. Instana is limiting this to only accepting Hachicorp, and clients feel they are being forced to purchase Hachicorp. Clients are complaining because the data is stored ...
1 day ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Request for Node Selector and Toleration Support in Nano Gateway to Address Licensing Implications

We have been operating IBM API Connect with the DataPower API Gateway as a component of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) since 2019. We are currently planning a migration to APIC v12.1 utilising the DataPower Nano Gateway (nanogw). However, ba...
3 days ago in Instana / DataPower Submitted

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!
4 days ago in Instana / MQ Submitted

There is no support or integration available for monitoring IBM HMC V11 within Instana.

A growing number of customers are migrating to IBM Power Systems with HMC Power 11 and require full monitoring capabilities within Instana as part of our Managed Services Platform (MSP). However, the current lack of support and integration for HMC...
13 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Delivery of instana otel collector (IDOT) as an rpm

Here is our scenario: our servers cannot freely access the internet to download anything we cannot freely download things from the internet to our desktops This means we cannot use the oneliner script to install the collector as it requires ...
5 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

The OTel agent on Windows should be installed to auto start in the same way as the host agent

The windows OTel collector is not configured with any auto start configuration. This means that when a host is rebooted the OTel collector stops reporting until someone goes to the box and manually starts the process.
3 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

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