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Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

New cloud services support required in Workload Planning

Hi, as part of our workload planning use case, our project managers build estimates using WP for new projects, where we require support for additional services in step 2 (resource type) while adding a resource. (Regarding the services that are ver...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted

The Instana SDK for EUM must support two methods to cope with security issue.

Our customer, "LG U Plus" has adopted Instana SaaS for EUM(End User Monitoring) this year, 2025.Recently, there's a security issue when the customer's android mobile app deployed with instana sdk for EUM. We, IBM present evidence that Instana sdk ...
4 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Adding OTel collector management to the instana console in self-hosted Instana standard version.

Hi, with the customer's request we raised an IBM ticket to check if the OTEL collector management is possible from the instana console. And the support confirmed that the feature is currently available for SAAS but asked to rais an idea with IBM t...
4 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Format improvement on PDF export of custom dashboard widget

Hi team, please consider including more information within the axes when a custom dashboard is exported. This is a key missing part in order to understand the graphs being exported, and right now we cannot see any values displayed, which makes it ...
10 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Instana, ADDI, and IBM Z Application Discovery

Instana's Current Capabilities On Power Systems LPARs: Instana can effectively discover applications through agents installed on the operating system, identifying processes, services, and their dependencies. On IBM Z Systems: Full support for z/Li...
15 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Needs more information

SMART Alert - Add new metrics to support monitoring JBoss Modules

I have a customer that has several JBoss servers, each one with many JBoss modules that need to have to be monitored.Today we have to create custom events one by one. So we'd like to request an improvement in the Smart Alerts to avoid creating tho...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
9 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Support the access setting with id & certificate for AzureSensor

Currently Azure sensor support connection only with service principals id & secret as bellow. com.instana.plugin.azure: enabled: true # Subscription & Tenant ID subscription: '[Your-Subscription-Id]' tenant: '[Your-Tenant-Id]' # List ...
10 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

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