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Instana

    Provide Native Governance Reporting for Application Perspectives

    Admins must rely on: REST APIs External scripts Terraform exports to understand AP sprawl and compliance. Requested Enhancement Built‑in reporting: AP inventory Scope overlap Orphaned perspectives Compliance rules (naming, tags, ownership) Exporta...
    17 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

    Improve Transparency of Built‑in Event Evaluation Logic

    Problem Users cannot clearly determine: Difference between “fraction of requests” vs “all requests” Whether multiple thresholds are evaluated with AND vs OR Full evaluation logic behind built‑in events Requested Enhancement Explicit evaluation log...
    17 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

    Improve Filtering & Alerting Controls for Internal Events (e.g., Abnormal Termination)

    Abnormal termination and change events cannot be: Cleanly identified during alert creation Selectively routed without alerting on all critical issues Requested Enhancement Documented event types for all internal events First‑class filters in alert...
    17 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

    Detect and Warn on Duplicate or Overlapping Application Perspectives

    Teams can create multiple APs with identical or near‑identical filters, causing: Trace association bloat Scale issues Governance problems Requested Enhancement Warning during AP creation: “This perspective overlaps 95% with AP X” Optional similari...
    17 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

    Provide Visibility and Alerts for Application Perspective Association Limits

    Instana enforces a limit of ~50 application perspectives per trace, but: No warnings exist No telemetry is exposed Data may be silently excluded Requested Enhancement UI indicator showing: Current AP associations per trace Percentage of limit used...
    17 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

    Add Metadata and Tags to Application Perspectives

    Application Perspectives cannot store ownership or metadata. Teams must rely on naming conventions, which do not scale and are ambiguous in Kubernetes/OpenShift environments. Requested Enhancement Ability to attach: Custom tags Owner/team fields E...
    17 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

    Native Instana Support for Oracle GoldenGate (On-Prem & OCI)

    Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) is a mission-critical replication technology widely used in financial services, retail, and telco customers. Today, Instana does not have a native sensor for OGG, which forces customers to rely on custom scripts, Prometheus...
    7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

    Instana Auto Incident Closure

    The auto-incident closure in Instana is currently working as designed — incidents are generated when an issue occurs and automatically closed once the condition clears or stops recurring. While this is expected behavior by default, it is creating ...
    8 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

    Ability to view logs after agent loss

    It would be interesting to be able to view an agent's logs from the SaaS in order to analyze the reason for its loss. Currently, logs can only be viewed when the agent is reporting to the SaaS, but it would be good to be able to analyze the last m...
    5 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

    Support for custom scripts to generate alerts with scheduling in Instana.

    The Instana capability would consist of providing an option to associate a custom script with a host or any other element, along with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined interval. Depending on the script output, an alert event could be g...
    9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

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