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    Keep the column headers when scrolling data

    When viewing the Infrastructure | Comparison table, the column headers disappear as you scroll down the data. It will gret if the column headers are kept. This same pattern needs to happen in other UI flows also.
    1 day ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

    Standard Edition preflight check must report all known prereq issues

    Currently, when the preflight check is executed, it only reports a subset of the problems. For example, I ran the preflight check on a brand new machine Red Hat with nothing setup. This is what got reported. ⚠️ the host for installation type demo ...
    1 day ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

    Standard Edition sizing must take into account HPA

    The sizing in the documentation and our sizing tools must take into account HPA auto-scaling. We've had environments with customers where the HPA created editional pods to the point where pods are getting evicted. Two things should happen: The HPA...
    1 day ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

    Requirement to collect custom WMI data

    Suggestion is to create a WMI receiver for the OTEL IDOT collector. WMI is prevelent in all Microsoft environments and applications/middleware write key performance metrics into WMI classes. By providing a WMI receiver, customers could integrate a...
    1 day ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

    Add span filtering for Hazelcast

    Hi, I would like to have ability to filter tracing spans that relate to Hazelcast. Something similar is already done for Redis (described on Optimize data ingest in Instana). This would allow to further reduce data ingestion. Best regards,ldrascic
    1 day ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

    Mask database queries

    Hi, We encounter the problem that some database query's may not be visible for everyone.The monitoring is happening on application-side. An Instana agent on the database is not necessary. We have for example a Kubernetes cluster with 10 namespaces...
    2 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

    Improve filtering options in Custom Dashboard tables

    Custom Dashboard tables in Instana have limited filtering capabilities. They do not support wildcards, short string searches (e.g., 2‑character suffixes), or basic operators like contains, starts with, or ends with.For use cases such as Oracle Gol...
    22 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

    Nutanix monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

    For Nutanix technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only (like the implementation for Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
    17 days ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Submitted

    Customer Request: Instana SaaS Usage Metering and Cost Forecasting Dashboard

    There is a need to provide an Instana SaaS usage metering dashboard and a cost forecasting dashboard,with enhancements requested to reach a comparable level of functionality to what Dynatrace currently provides. Background for the Feature Enhancem...
    25 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

    OpenStack monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

    For OpenStack technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only. (Like the implementation of Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
    17 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

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