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Add a "PersistentVolumes" column to the Kubernetes Clusters view for quicker visibility and access to PV details and metrics

This enhancement would significantly improve observability and troubleshooting by making PersistentVolumes (PVs) immediately visible at the cluster level. Currently, users have to dig through multiple views to find storage-related information. Sur...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Functionality already exists

DI TopN Column Timespans Overwritten by Report Timespan + Add Rolling TopN Column Timespans

The TopN widget settings allow users to add multiple columns via the Timespan option under the Analyze tab. If this option is used to set columns in a widget, and then the Report Timespan option is used to set a custom timespan, it overwrites all ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Ignore today's date when running comparison reports

When running cost comparison reports, today's date is included in the analysis. For example, if I select "This month" and compare it against "Last month-to-date", it's never an equal comparison as "This month" includes the day that you are running...

Ability to filter Container data by pod names

Customers often have naming conventions for pods and technical teams want to easily see their workloads within Containers. This request is to allow for filtering by pod names (esp with starts with or contains) to allow for filtering to the list of...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i. The time exception will be provided by application team for the respective jobs. The alert should be triggered with the time threshold for that particular job is breached.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Need to be able to schedule CSV file delivery

My customer require the ability to get reports in CSV file formats for incorporation into they're own reporting.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Planned for future release

Request for Native Support for PHP Applications on Azure App Service

Dear Instana Team, We would like to request native support for Azure App Service running PHP applications. Our current workaround involves installing the Instana agent in the startup script as a Linux agent. This approach is not convenient for our...
11 months ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 2 Planned for future release

Enabling capturing synthetic calls

We noticed (with the support of a support ticket) that the option in "Configure Synthetic Endpoints" > "Auto-Detected Health/Ping Checks" needs to be enabled in order that calls from synthetic monitors are marked as synthetic. It would be usefu...
8 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Distinguish synthetic calls

In the Analytics > Calls screen it's not possible to make a distinction between synthetic calls ("GET /actuator/health" for example) and synthetic calls that are coming from the Instana synthetic monitors. It would be great to have a filter pos...
8 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration