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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 ...
2 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

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...
2 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Add Oracle Database Driver Support (oracledb / ocdb) in Instana Synthetic Tests

Currently, Instana Synthetic Tests only support drivers such as mssql and mongodb, which limits the ability to directly test environments running on Oracle Database. Adding support for the official oracledb (and optionally ocdb) Node.js drivers wo...
2 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
18 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
15 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
15 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
28 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review