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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 ...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Volatility Setting for actions?

Enable a way for actions to filtered / policy'd out until they hit a certain number of days without changing. We've been seeing a number of actions that flap very often between sizes back and forth, so it could be useful for automation policies to...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Ensure alerts are reliably delivered even during temporary outages

Hi, At the moment when an event triggers an alert the channel doesn't guarantee delivery of the message or action and it even doesn't log what has happened of if anything happened at all. Therefore we request to improve Instana’s alerting mechanis...
7 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add audit trail logging for Instana alert channel

Hi, While implementing Instana at a banking IT data center in Germany we discovered the need for logging the alert channel interactions that have happened. The automation framework already provides such an action history. We need exactly that for ...
7 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Planned for future release

Enhancing the RUM(Real User Monitoring) of Instana by the feature like Dynatrace's Visual Complete.

Currently, Instana’s "onLoad time" metric does not include XHR (XMLHttpRequest) or fetch requests that occur after the initial page load. The "onLoad time" is specifically defined as the time from fetchStart to loadEventEnd according to the browse...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 5 Not under consideration

Turbonomic's parking functionality issue for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot)

We are working with the ITAU customer who is experiencing performance issues with the parking functionality in Turbonomic for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot).The issue is that Turbonomic's current parking behavior t...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0

Turbonomic Parking Schedules - missing time zone offset

Can the time zone in turbonomic parking schedules also show the law text difference, or offset, of the local time from UTC. This is currently displayed in PMC and administrators use this infomation to accurately set schedules to meet strict busine...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

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