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Event closing action in automation

Hi, Currently there is no closing action which fires when an event is closed. We need this to tell the central event management console that an issue is resolved. It will nag the resonsible team until a closing event is received.
1 day ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Dynamic Tag support for process environment variables in actions needed

Hi, We use Webhooks to trigger events in our central alerting console. The messages are then routed to the appropriate team/workflow based on tags which are delivered as environment variables with the process. Currently those environment variables...
1 day ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
22 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Submitted

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
23 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Submitted

Request for Kafka Partition-Level Metrics Collection in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide the ability to collect Kafka metrics at the partition level. For example, it is not possible to monitor the backlog of messages for each partition. If such information cannot be obtained directly in Instana, it ...
23 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Zero-code discovery and instrumentation support for C++ applications in Instana

Description Currently, Instana does not support automatic discovery and instrumentation of applications written in C++ The agent is unable to detect and provide code-level tracing or service-level visibility for C++ processes. For organizations ru...
4 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
23 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Automatic agent startup on AIX after server restart

When a server restarts, the agent does not start automatically up and observability could be lost. Although this can be done manually, there would be a margin for error.
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Instana Integration with performance test tool

Identification requests and calls from load tests to separate from another activities in order to facilitate the analysis
3 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted