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Instana

OpenLIT support for LLM application

Other APM tools like NewRelic, Datadog and Dynatrace now support OpenLIT for monitoring LLM applications. It supports OpenTelemetry-native auto-instrumentation to trace LLMs, agents, vector databases and GPUs with zero-code. It's more similar conc...
about 2 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability 0 Submitted

Set Session Settings for User Groups

The option to set "User session timeout" and "Idle session timeout" (in Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings) in the Instana SaaS backend should be allowed to be set for groups of users, rather than for...
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

support FastApi 0.115.8 and Celery version 5.5.2 to monitor Python nodes

Looks like Instana does not supports this version for FastApi "0.115.8" and Celery version "5.5.2" Instana requires following version only to enable container monitoring for Python docker services We are using instana version as = 3.4.1 when we ar...
11 months ago in Instana / Python 4 Functionality already exists

Enhance EUM to include Session Replay

We have application teams who are using Dynatrace's Session Replay feature. To move to Instana they are requiring this feature.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any restorability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
7 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Needs more information

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 4 Planned for future release

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
11 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Planned for future release

extract the complete Instana device inventory—including each device’s first reporting timestamp—export it to CSV directly from Instana, and share the file via email

We received requirement from client to extract the complete device inventory from Instana, including the date when each device first started reporting. The report should contain all monitored devices along with their initial reporting timestamp. A...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Submitted