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Customize entity information on horizontal rows of Kanban

At the moment, it's not possible to customize the information displayed for horizontal rows on a Kanban board. We would like to have the ability to display the fields that are most useful for our users. For instance, as shown in the screenshot, we...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

GlassFish Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application when it is not enabled.
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

GPFS Sensor

GPFS (Spectrum Scale) is an enterprise-grade solution for environments that require extremely high performance, scalability, and resilience.Its use is common in sectors where data access time and reliability are critical.Implementing monitoring an...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

I would like to request a policy change so that a new version number is assigned to the Instana agent with each BootStrap release.

There are cases where the version number of the Instana agent does not change even though the BootStrap included in the Instana agent has been updated. Because of this, when a bug is detected in BootStrap, it becomes impossible to identify which v...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 4 Future consideration

Collapse all view folders at once

I have many views and view folders. The list gets very chaotic as folders are opened. I would like to have a button or feature to collapse/expand all folders at any level from the very top as well as sub-folders. At minimum, the ability to quickly...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

Keep parent/child entities together on roadmap views

I would like to be able to group related entities on a Roadmap view. If a roadmap contains parent entities and their children (or another related entity), there is no way I've seen to get them to stay together, which makes it visually very confusi...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

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