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Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Standardize the position and behavior of the search bar across all views by keeping it consistently on the left and fully clickable, improving usability and alignment with common UI patterns.

This change reduces user confusion and friction by making the search functionality predictable, discoverable, and easy to interact with across the entire platform. Consistency in UI placement supports faster navigation, reduces misclicks, and alig...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Add a "PersistentVolumes" column to the Kubernetes Clusters view for quicker visibility and access to PV details and metrics

This enhancement would significantly improve observability and troubleshooting by making PersistentVolumes (PVs) immediately visible at the cluster level. Currently, users have to dig through multiple views to find storage-related information. Sur...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

Add filters in Rightsizing ROI to separate Deleted/Terminated savings from Rightsizing-only savings

Currently, Rightsizing ROI shows combined savings from all optimization actions. Customers cannot distinguish between savings from rightsizing (downsize/resize) versus decommissioning (delete/terminate). This inflates the ROI picture and makes it ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Anomaly Detection with Intelligent Application Capability

Today, Anomaly Detection alerts you when spend spikes or drops but all remediation is manual. This delay often means real money wasted before action is taken. By embedding workflows, Anomaly Detection can suggest and trigger corrective actions imm...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Intelligent Budget Reallocation & Forecast Adjustment in CFP

Right now, CFP only tells you when a team overspends but you have to fix it manually. Example: Finance sees that Marketing overspent budget by 10% in CFP. They must go into another system, reallocate budget, get approvals from Finance, and inform ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Download formula step for easier copy and pasting

If you are building in a branch and you have a lot of formulas to copy over to the trunk, assuming you don't want to merge, you can download the formulas all at once to an excel or other tool.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Not under consideration