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Instana

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...
8 days ago in Instana / Integrations Under review

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 ...
4 days ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Add support for MQ HA using VCS (Infoscale)

Since many enterprises use VCS (Infoscale) to manage HA for MQ, historically it has always been the popular option, it would be great for Instana to support MQ HA using VCS.
1 day ago in Instana / MQ Submitted

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

Folder-Level Permissions Not Discovering Resources Across Multiple Projects

Having Instana supports only one GCP project per configuration is problematic from a configuration and management overhead point of view. The Instana documentation was not clear that sub-folders were not covered and has resulted in wasted effort i...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Enable IBM DataPower Validation Credentials for TLS Client Profiles to support CA bundle / multi-certificate PEM files by importing and validating all certificates contained in a single PEM bundle.

Who would benefit: DataPower administrators, security teams, platform engineers, and enterprises managing outbound TLS connections would benefit by reducing manual certificate import effort, improving CA trust-store maintainability, and aligning D...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / DataPower Submitted

stanctl install path for air-gapped and non-air-gapped need to be the same

The customer initially did their Standard Edition install using the air-gapped package. Per the installation instructions, stanctl is placed in /usr/local/bin. Later, the customer was able to get the Instana repos white listed and changed to onlin...
1 day ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Add ability to mark http status codes as errors though they are not in the 5xx range

Hi, Certain application owners in our organisation have the need to report error rates based on functional errors which are e.g. reported with a 412 (or other) http status codes. This is technically not an error and those requests are not marked a...
1 day ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Alignment of IBM MQ Queue Visibility Between Instana Applications and Infrastructure for z/OS Environments

This enhancement is essential to enable true end-to-end observability across IBM Z environments within Instana by ensuring consistent and correlated visibility of MQ queues across both Applications and Infrastructure views. Currently, MQ queues ar...
1 day ago in Instana / IBM Z 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. ...
10 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted