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Instana

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Add possibility of creating public dashboard and exposing it without authentication

Hello Colleagues, we have a second request, please consider adding a functionality of creating a public dashboard with it's exposure without authentication. Thank you
5 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
11 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 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

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...
23 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 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...
24 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 ...
24 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 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 ...
24 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

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...
5 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Default Dashboard for DB2 Monitoring

🎯 Goal : Enable database administrators and operations teams to quickly assess the health and performance of DB2 environments without additional setup or custom dashboards. 📊 Suggested Dashboard Structure: Overview Total DB2 Hosts monitored Total ...
17 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
9 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted