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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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
21 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Provide Recommendations Tailor to Expiring Commitments

Currently, Cloudability doesn’t allow users to get recommendations for more commitments if there’s already a plan in place, even if it’s about to expire. It would be helpful if Cloudability could make recommendations for Savings Plans / other comm...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Sticky Filters In the Rightsizing Module

When a user is using the Rightsizing module they can "Add a Filter" to find the appropriate data that they are looking for. If they are in AWS EC2 and want to naviagate to AWS EBS, those applied filters fall off. This also happens when moving betw...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

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