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Prevent Instana from Auto-Closing ServiceNow Incidents When They Are In-Progress

Description: Currently, Instana–ServiceNow integration automatically creates and closes incidents based on the lifecycle of Instana alerts. Behavior today: When an Instana event is triggered, an incident is successfully created in ServiceNow. When...
13 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

See the Pipeline Feedback on the Synthetic monitoring view

Based on current documentation about Synthetic monitoring I see that there is no way to see the Releases made to the environment, we have that available on other Instana views like EUM, Application Perspectives and Infrasctructure, but is missing ...
13 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Let the API actions be seen in the Action Log

We found out that under Security and Access -> Audit trail -> Action log, only the actions done using the Instana UI are shown. The actions done via the API are not. It would improve auditability and security to be able to see the actions do...
13 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Allow Instana agent sending metrics to both Instana backend and our streaming layer, e.g. Kafka

We propose that the Instana agent should be capable of transmitting metrics not only to the Instana backend but also to our streaming layer, specifically Kafka. This dual transmission capability will enhance our data processing and analytics capab...
13 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

End to end transaction journey monitoring.

Multiple banking customers have been asking for end-to-end journey mapping across their payment ecosystem. Their main requirement is to be able to stitch a single business journey across multiple hops, each of which uses a different identifier. Ex...
14 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Planned for future release

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.
2 months ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
7 months ago in Instana / Go 1 Under review

Improve Instana SaaS by supporting "User sessions query"

Dynatrace provides the User sessions query with SQL-like methods It is a functionality to query and view various metrics in a table.
5 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability 4 Not under consideration

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 4 Not under consideration