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Configurable Sampling Rate and Ignoring Calls

Detail : We would like to configure the sampling rate of a process or a service in Instana. For example, there are 10 different call names for one process, but we just want to see 2 of them to be captured by our agent, so it means sampling rate of...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Instana Support for Ceph Quincy (v6) and Above

Title: Instana Support for Ceph Quincy (v6) and Above Detail: Instana's current support for monitoring Ceph covers the version Pacific and below. We are using Ceph version Quincy (v6) and we would like Instana to support this version and above. Th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Add Kinesis Firehose Cloudwatch Metric to AWS Sensor

Hi all, Currently, only Kinesis Data streams but not Kinesis Data Firehose streams are supported by the AWS sensor. Since our platform is also using Kinesis Data Firehose streams, an integration is much appreciated. Thanks in advance and kind rega...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 2

Analytics Calls value link

Hi Would be nice if you could take values from the calls details page and make it an variable in a link to another site. The use case is customer is using OTEL and we get "db.sqlid" value klsdjf9034r. The customer is requesting if we could have a ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Budgets & Forecasts

Need to have a global overview and detailed per view: · Consumed (since the beginning of the fiscal year) · Budget (by fiscal year) · Forecasts (at the end of the fiscal year) Budgets are not shared in the interface but managed user by user except...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Alerting

Each user has to create his own alerts. There is no possibility to create default alerts. Need to be able to create specific alerts for rightsizing / budget / forecast to a group / a predefined list linked to a view A single point of configuration...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

Add Cross-Cloud Data Transfer Costs in Workload Planning

In Workload Planning, it would be highly beneficial for customers to have visibility into cross-cloud data transfer costs. For example, if a workload operates across both AWS and Azure, the associated data transfer costs between these clouds shoul...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Integration DPOD - Instana

DPOD allows to see in depth what happens with the transactions on the datapower, instana does not have this functionality and it would be complementary to have this information at the application level, trying to have a complete end-to-end view.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Budget Alerts - Continued Alerting

Ability to keep getting alerting, even after you hit threshold. Allow for continued notification, past the current 2 options of Expect to Exceed and Exceeded. AWS portal allows for notification for multi % over a set budget. So if I have $1K budge...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

Support IBM App Connect v13.0

Currently IBM Instana only support IBM ACE v11 and v12. We have setup latest version v13 for IBM ACE in our environment. When can Instana support this new version?
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists