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We'd like to limit users with limited infrastructure scope can create custom events that may apply to entities withing their team's scope. Currently, there is no limitation at all

Custom events in Instana are governed by global permissions, meaning there is no granular RBAC control for this feature. As a result, users with limited infrastructure scope can create custom events that may apply to entities outside their team’s ...
8 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

show build level for Power Firmware version

We would like to see the full version for the Power Firmare. For now you can see the base version (For example: P H M Cversion V10R3), but we would like to see everything (For example: V10R3 M1062)
15 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

SMART Alert - Add new metrics to support monitoring JBoss Modules

I have a customer that has several JBoss servers, each one with many JBoss modules that need to have to be monitored.Today we have to create custom events one by one. So we'd like to request an improvement in the Smart Alerts to avoid creating tho...
2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

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...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Smart alert for log volumetry

Create a smart alert based on log volumetry. The idea is to have an alert before reaching the threshold of logs in context add on which is 1 TiB / month
8 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Shorter Grace Period for SmartAlerts

Currently, the shortest configurable Grace Period in SmartAlerts is 10 min (a lot longer compared with Custom Events, which have a minimum lapse of 5 sec). We'd like to have shorter Grace Period options when configuring SmartAlerts (5s and up woul...
9 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
4 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 1 Needs more information

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review