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Customisable links on Instana home dashboard

Currently, the Instana Home Dashboard provides quick-access links to resources such as “Install agents or collectors,” “Add user,” “IBM documentation,” “Release Notes,” and “Community blogs.” However, enterprise Instana users often require direct ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Automatic disable scheduled runs of datalink during maintenance/release upgrade

If a datalink run is started during maintenance it can result in tables being in use in Apptio CT and failed runs in datalink
22 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Search is not working correctly in eventviewer list with relationship view enabled

There are often scenarios where main events are linked to child events. These relationships can be effectively visualized using the Relationship View in the EventViewer. However, the search functionality does not work correctly when using this Rel...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
12 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Instana SaaS on Azure

In Norway and Nordics Azure is the most used public cloud. Clients have committed spedn to Azure and would like to procure Instana as SaaS hosted in Azure. Ideally also to be able to purchase Instana SaaS through Azure Marketplace.
12 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Add sound notification for Alert Viewer

Users were able to configure audible notifications in WebGUI's Event Viewer. Depending on event criteria, the event viewer would play a preset or custom sound alerting the user that a new or updated event has appeared. This functionality does not ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
24 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
24 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration