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Request for Kafka Partition-Level Metrics Collection in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide the ability to collect Kafka metrics at the partition level. For example, it is not possible to monitor the backlog of messages for each partition. If such information cannot be obtained directly in Instana, it ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
27 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
15 days ago in Instana / Logging 2 Submitted

Documentation on how to setup SevOne NMS to monitor kubernetes via eBPF

There are quite a few mentions in blog posts and videos about combining SevOne NMS with Network Observability (NetObserv Operator) in order to monitor kubernetes via eBPF Introducing IBM SevOne 7 - Now available https://community.ibm.com/community...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 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 ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Alerting on 95% Percentile

Add ability to alert when the X percentile is crosses Y percent. For example, when the 95% percentile crosses 70% over X time.
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Submitted

Improvement "Related" functionality in TMB Studio

It will be very handful to add into functionality "Related" tables that are using current table as a source table. The same for Lineage, now it`s not showing any relation between these tables.
4 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
4 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Turbonomic to support resource monitoring for IBM softwares delivered in virtual appliance form

IBM has a few software products that are delivered as virtual appliances. These services running in a VM deployed with a OVA template. Currently, Turbonomic evaluate them as a regular VM and may issue a resize actions based on the server metrics d...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Notification of when Calculations are complete in IBM Apptio TBM Studio

If there was some type of automated notification of when the calculations completed in IBM Apptio - TBM Studio, it would help everyone! This would help us to know exactly when we can push to production and get that information out to our customers...
6 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted