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Custom event for disk status

Customer is looking to replace existing tool with Instana for IBM i monitoring. They are currently using an event trigger when disk is not found which is not currently possible with Instana. This request is to support custom event wherein customer...
7 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Monitoring python applications running on Windows hosts in Instana

Hi Instana Team, As a user who relies on Python applications running in a Windows environment, I wanted to highlight the current limitations with the instana.collector.helpers.runtime module due to its dependency on the Unix-specific resource libr...
7 days ago in Instana / Python 0 Submitted

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
7 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Document instana agent log error message meaning, criticallity and potential resolution

Agent logs in our production and preproduction env are collected centrally in our logging plattform, but currently we cannot interpret message meaning and criticallity as needed for enterprise operation of our vending platform.
7 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
21 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
22 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view We need urgently a way to build application perspective views based on discrete call tags that arise at various points in service hierarc...
27 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Under review

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review