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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

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...
16 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Subcategories in credits to classify them and better understand these concepts when creating reports

The client would like to be able to subclassify credits in the same way, or in a more granular way, as seen in the console of their cloud providers. In this case, GCP. Currently, in Cloudability, we only classify them as credits or not.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted

Custom Dashborads - Axis and Widget legend display

Hi team, please allow the possibility to format the y-Axis, so it displays more values (not just the upper value). Regarding the Legends, in some cases they are displayed perfectly, but sometimes, when there are many metrics displayed, or few metr...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Prevent Instana from Auto-Closing ServiceNow Incidents When They Are In-Progress

Description: Currently, Instana–ServiceNow integration automatically creates and closes incidents based on the lifecycle of Instana alerts. Behavior today: When an Instana event is triggered, an incident is successfully created in ServiceNow. When...
9 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Enable sorting by cost when using "View By" options other than none.

Currently, when creating a widget that displays the Top 10 costs by account year-to-date ("This Year") in a stacked bar chart, the sorting functionality behaves inconsistently depending on the "View By" setting: With View By = None, the Sort optio...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

See the Pipeline Feedback on the Synthetic monitoring view

Based on current documentation about Synthetic monitoring I see that there is no way to see the Releases made to the environment, we have that available on other Instana views like EUM, Application Perspectives and Infrasctructure, but is missing ...
9 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Let the API actions be seen in the Action Log

We found out that under Security and Access -> Audit trail -> Action log, only the actions done using the Instana UI are shown. The actions done via the API are not. It would improve auditability and security to be able to see the actions do...
9 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Allow Instana agent sending metrics to both Instana backend and our streaming layer, e.g. Kafka

We propose that the Instana agent should be capable of transmitting metrics not only to the Instana backend but also to our streaming layer, specifically Kafka. This dual transmission capability will enhance our data processing and analytics capab...
10 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted