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Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

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

Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
9 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
about 3 years ago in Instana / Metric Store / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Azure and GCP utilization metrics needed in Reports in Dashboard in Cldy and ABI

Many customers have a need for utilisation metrics for Azure and GCP in Cldy - its been called out as a feature deficit for years. Its needed for customers so they can dive deep into longer term (like over a year) metrics util on instances to see ...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Add Resource Name to GCP Resource Inventory (Compute Engine)

Resource Name is needed to ensure clear identification of GCE resources in Cloudability Resource ID which comes from GCP billing data is not clear enough (it looks more like a path and it doesn't contain the resource name) Resource Name field is c...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Disk usage metric for EBS and GPD

Currently we cannot look at the disk usage data for EBS and GPD, most of the disks are over provisioned and we pay for what we allocate than what we use. Cloudability is showing these metrics for RDS in AWS, why cant we do it for EBS and GPD with ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Add ‘last seen’ date to Resource Inventory.

Problem:Right now the resource inventory has the resource state, but for terminated resources there is no way to tell when the resource was terminated. Request:To provide visibility into what time frame the resource inventory data represents and w...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Future consideration

Expiring RI for RDS, add column for Engine type

For expiring RDS RIs, it would be very useful to have the engine added to the table that is sent via email subscription.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Future consideration