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Expose System I/O Metrics for Alerting and Custom Events in Instana

Instana already shows System I/O metrics on the Host Dashboard (Calls/s, Reads/s, Writes/s, Logical Block Reads/Writes), but these metrics do not appear in the Metrics Selector when creating Custom Events or Alerting rules. We request that these e...
3 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Enhancing the RUM(Real User Monitoring) of Instana by the feature like Dynatrace's Visual Complete.

Currently, Instana’s "onLoad time" metric does not include XHR (XMLHttpRequest) or fetch requests that occur after the initial page load. The "onLoad time" is specifically defined as the time from fetchStart to loadEventEnd according to the browse...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 5 Not under consideration

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

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

Add web browser resource monitoring to Website EUM

We are using Instana’s Website EUM to gain insights into frontend performance and user experience. However, we’ve encountered situations where users were unable to complete key workflows—such as transactions or form submissions—because their brows...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Use GPS for geolocation instead of IP address for more accurate location

For real user monitoring or EUM (end-user monitoring): would be great if we can use GPS on mobile device for more accurate geolocation besides using IP Address
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

The Instana SDK for EUM must support two methods to cope with security issue.

Our customer, "LG U Plus" has adopted Instana SaaS for EUM(End User Monitoring) this year, 2025.Recently, there's a security issue when the customer's android mobile app deployed with instana sdk for EUM. We, IBM present evidence that Instana sdk ...
24 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Enhance EUM to include Session Replay

We have application teams who are using Dynatrace's Session Replay feature. To move to Instana they are requiring this feature.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
9 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration