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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...
23 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Latent Vacuum Engine v2.2: 6 White Hole Bursts in 100k Cycles — Area Law to 10⁻¹⁶

**Description**: - **GHZ benchmark** for ibm_sherbrooke/brisbane **Fault-tolerant** via boundary scaling **Photonic interconnect** via HOM V = T **Analog gravity** on silicon photonics **Who benefits?** - IBM Quantum team (2026 advantage) Almaden ...
7 days ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
3 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana, ADDI, and IBM Z Application Discovery

Instana's Current Capabilities On Power Systems LPARs: Instana can effectively discover applications through agents installed on the operating system, identifying processes, services, and their dependencies. On IBM Z Systems: Full support for z/Li...
28 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Needs more information

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Instana SaaS hosted in Azure + Azure Marketplace offering

In Norway as for rest of Scandinavia the main public cloud is Azure. Azure has datacenters in Norway and Sweden, and most clients prefer to host SaaS applications there. Offering Instana SaaS in Azure in Europe would skip questions as mostly all o...
8 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Instana to instrument IBM Financial Transaction Manager and ODM for Payments

Bank client wants to use Instana to monitor traces, metrics and logs from IBM Financial Transaction Manager. Asking for Instana to support FTM observability. Goal is end-to-end observability in Financial Transaction Manager to reduce MTTR for FTM....
8 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted