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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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
5 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted

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

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

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...
19 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Provide Recommendations Tailor to Expiring Commitments

Currently, Cloudability doesn’t allow users to get recommendations for more commitments if there’s already a plan in place, even if it’s about to expire. It would be helpful if Cloudability could make recommendations for Savings Plans / other comm...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

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...
5 days ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Submitted

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

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

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