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Latent Vacuum Engine v2.2: 6 White Hole Bursts in 100k Cycles — Area Law to 10⁻¹⁶

**Description**: - **GHZ benchmark** for ibm_sherbrooke/brisbane **Fault-tolerant** via boundary scaling **Photonic interconnect** via HOM V = T **Analog gravity** on silicon photonics **Who benefits?** - IBM Quantum team (2026 advantage) Almaden ...
23 days ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
10 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Observability to APIC since INSTANA.

Banco Popular of the Dominican Republic needs to integrate INSTANA with APIC, with the goal of observing: _ Provider Organizations_ Catalogs_ APIs (Requests) The problem is that the integration between both products has been underway for over a mo...
5 months ago in Instana / API-C 4 Future consideration

Instana SaaS hosted in Azure + Azure Marketplace offering

In Norway as for rest of Scandinavia the main public cloud is Azure. Azure has datacenters in Norway and Sweden, and most clients prefer to host SaaS applications there. Offering Instana SaaS in Azure in Europe would skip questions as mostly all o...
24 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Instana to instrument IBM Financial Transaction Manager and ODM for Payments

Bank client wants to use Instana to monitor traces, metrics and logs from IBM Financial Transaction Manager. Asking for Instana to support FTM observability. Goal is end-to-end observability in Financial Transaction Manager to reduce MTTR for FTM....
24 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Add Otel tags in log volume Analysis

Add Open Telemetry tags filter group in log volume to facilite analysis volumetry sent directly to Instana Backend (without passing through Instana Agent)
24 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

REST API for Custom Dashboard PDF Export

We would like to regularly archive the contents of custom dashboards. Although manual saving via the UI is possible, automation would be highly preferable. Providing a REST API for this functionality would enable automation and significantly impro...
24 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration