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No‑Cross‑Border GenAI Processing for Instana SaaS

Highly regulated customers in DACH (e.g., Public Sector) require strict guarantees that no data leaves the EU at any stage of processing. Today, GenAI inference in Instana SaaS is performed via a centralised service outside the EU, which may make ...
7 days ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

Need better handling of mistakes in the mqtracingexit.conf file for MQ tracing

Minor syntax errors within the mqtracingexit.conf file cause the MQ Tracing to file. There appears to be sensitivity to whether or not there are spaces between the parameters, the equal sign, and the value. This is related to support case TS022198...
6 days ago in Instana / MQ Planned for future release

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Z Planned for future release

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Show version via labels/annotations for the instana agent operator

Currently when downloading the instana agent operator from github (https://github.com/instana/instana-agent-operator/releases) the version is only contained in the image tag in images.txt Looking only add the manifests in instana-agent-operator.ya...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Failed to detect Integration Node failure

There is no way to detect Integration Node failure using either built-in or custom metrics in EVENT. The only way is to use "system rules - offline event detection" to trigger event right after Integration Node failure. However, several issues wit...
27 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Planned for future release

Expose DB2 JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values in Instana SQL traces (optional / configurable)

For enterprise z/OS customers running mission‑critical DB2 workloads, Instana SQL visibility is functionally limited because AutoTrace, by design, does not capture JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values, rendering all parameters as ?. While d...
3 months ago in Instana / DB2 Planned for future release

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Planned for future release

How to monitor MinIO with Instana IBM?

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage solution released under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license. Designed for speed and scalability, it powers AI/ML, analytics, and data-intensive workloads with industry-leading performance. S3 API C...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Support for additional AIX Error Types (Pending, Unknown, Info) and Classes (Operational, Undetermined) in Instana Host Agent

Monitoring AIX infrastructure using the Instana host agent. By configuring the aixEventsPollRate under the com.instana.plugin.host plugin in configuration.yaml, the agent successfully retrieves permanent/temporary error types and hardware/software...
17 days ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release