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Instana

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    Add Identifier/Flag for Events Suppressed During Maintenance Windows to Support Downstream Integrations

    When an Instana environment is in a maintenance window, events are intentionally suppressed and not forwarded to downstream systems such as ServiceNow (SNOW). However, Instana currently provides no mechanism to identify or retrieve which events we...
    about 24 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

    Ability to monitor shared drive on Windows Server (SMB)

    Request for Instana to add the ability to be able to monitor Windows shared drives (using SMB) in the same fashion that Linux NFS mount points are currently monitored. I am currently using Windows 2016 and Windows 2022 Standard Edition.
    1 day ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

    Need Air-gapped support for the k8s IDOT - Self-Hosted Custom Edition

    Since October 2025, the FIS(Fidelity Information Services) customer has been working to enable distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry (OTel) integration to achieve end‑to‑end traceability across Istio, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy and related components....
    1 day ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

    OAuth authentication for MCP server

    Currently the MCP server uses API token authentication, it would be nice to have other auth methods available, mainly OAuth.
    1 day ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

    CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

    Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
    3 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Submitted

    Implement sensor for observability of applications developed in PowerBuilder

    PowerBuilder remains a crucial framework for massive, traditional ERP and financial systems in sectors such as government, healthcare, and banking. These applications are the backbone of many organizations, but they lack modern observability. With...
    3 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

    Enable Bidirectional Integration Between Instana and BigPanda

    The current integration approach between Instana and BigPanda is limited to one‑way communication using webhooks, allowing Instana to send or collect data unidirectionally. However, some customers(FIS, TIS, TSYS) require full bidirectional synchro...
    4 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

    IBM OpenStack Sensor: Add configurable Keystone API path, HTTP/HTTPS protocol, certificate verification, domain support, and Canonical OpenStack compatibility

    The current IBM OpenStack sensor (com.instana.plugin.ibmopenstack) has several hardcoded defaults that prevent it from working with non-standard or self-hosted OpenStack deployments. The sensor appears to have been built primarily for Red Hat Open...
    4 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

    Enable Native Trace / Call Payload Visualization and Aggregation in Instana Dashboards

    Problem Statement Customers using Instana for application performance monitoring cannot natively visualize or aggregate trace/call‑level payload data (custom tags, request/response attributes, business fields) in dashboards. While payload data can...
    5 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

    Ability to Save as PDF

    On the main Host page it shows lots of usefull information CPU MEMORY NETWORK FILE SYSTEM PROCESS etc It would be good if their was the ability to save this screen directly to a PDF File to capture all the charts / graphs shown in there for the ti...
    8 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

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