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Need to recognise graceful shutdown of operating systems

Hello Team, we have a customer who is asking for the functionality of Instana to recognise if the restart was manual (graceful) or accidental like power outage, hangs, hardware malfunction. The information helps to reduce time SRE engineers spend ...
3 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted

Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
20 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Need ability to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data - Backend database

In Instana we have ability to configure retention period for metrics data and but not for Traces and Transactional data, I need the same flexibility to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data as well. for example my clickhouse...
10 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Submitted

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
29 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Feature Request: Saved Time Ranges

We would like to request a new feature: the ability to save and name custom time ranges. Currently, when we investigate an incident, we have to manually re-select the exact time frame every time. It is also difficult to share this specific time wi...
8 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
17 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted