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Provide ability to read Prometheus Metrics with Bearer token

Hi Team, We are trying to retrieve prometheus metrics in instana UI which are authenticated with bearer token. We followed below configuration, but it's not working, let us know is any other changes required com.instana.plugin.prometheus: poll_rat...
2 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
26 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Review the impacted forecast lines updated & deleted by reference data changes

When reference data changes, could we add the ability to see the impacted forecast lines prior to updating the reference data? This would allow users to easily review and approve the changes. Currently, the only process I'm aware of is to create a...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Use the value "Actuals" for the Source Plan field for actuals rows appended into forecast plans instead of the forecast plan name

Currently, when a forecast plan is created, actuals rows use the plan name in the Source Plan field (e.g., “FY2025 November Forecast”). To improve clarity between actuals and forecast data, we request that actuals rows appended during plan creatio...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

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

Variance Analysis functionality by Department & Vendor

Right now I understand that Variance Analysis for Forecasting in Apptio Planning can only be performed by Cost Center & Account Category. Allowing Variance Analysis to be configured based on different data would be tremendously helpful! For ex...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

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

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

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...
9 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration