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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

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

Have ability to add generic email to subscriptions (same applies to Anomaly emails and ApptioBI reports)

Currently, as a user I can only subscribe myself to a report, usign the email that my account is associated with.I want to be able to subscribe a generic mail list (e.g. cloud-services@synamedia.com) to a report. This functionality ensure that the...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Change ACE autodiscovery to work for non-running processes

The autodiscovery for ACE currently works by looking for running ACE processes.Autodiscovery should discover all ACE installations, and all ACE entities (node, integration servers, message flows etc) whether or not they are running at the time. Al...
13 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Under review

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

Add “Other” Grouping Option in Cloudability Dashboards

Why is it useful? In Apptio BI, users have the ability to enable or disable the “Other” grouping option when displaying results. This setting allows for cleaner and more accurate data visualization by deciding whether smaller categories should be ...
30 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Enable Hostname Resolution for Instana Agent Pods Running Without Host Network

Currently, in Kubernetes clusters where the Instana agent runs without hostNetwork mode, the host sensor retrieves the pod name instead of the actual host name (FQDN).This happens because the hostname is determined using the hostname command, whic...
6 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Request for Q Replication Monitoring Support in Instana

Recently, I have been researching and testing Q Replication (QREP). My understanding is that Instana currently does not provide direct support for QREP. However, I believe it would be very helpful if information about the internal state of Q Captu...
6 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted