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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...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

Need to be able download PDF of current list of events

Hello colleagues, we have a request from customer to deliver option of downloading current list of Events/Incidents from "Events" in Instana dashboards. At the moment we have the functionality with "Custom dashboards", but it is not always an opti...
5 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

implementing intelligent recommendations and remediation for Instana alerts

Got a feedback from my one of the largest manufacturer clients in Hong Kong. They would like to have a a quick summary of our Intelligent Recommendations and Remediation in the alert email. They thought that the current email does not have have th...
5 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

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...
23 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Prevent Instana from Auto-Closing ServiceNow Incidents When They Are In-Progress

Description: Currently, Instana–ServiceNow integration automatically creates and closes incidents based on the lifecycle of Instana alerts. Behavior today: When an Instana event is triggered, an incident is successfully created in ServiceNow. When...
5 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

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 ...
6 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Automatically create relations for topology resources

We need to handle the linking between resources from different data sources by automatically creates a relation between two different resources from two different data sources. For example, if we discover the physical server using ITNM Observer an...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

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...
6 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...
6 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted