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Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Feature to filter HTTP calls

Customer needs a way to disable some HTTP calls to be detected, for example filter the calls that contains a specific string in the path
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0

Standardize the position and behavior of the search bar across all views by keeping it consistently on the left and fully clickable, improving usability and alignment with common UI patterns.

This change reduces user confusion and friction by making the search functionality predictable, discoverable, and easy to interact with across the entire platform. Consistency in UI placement supports faster navigation, reduces misclicks, and alig...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Add a "PersistentVolumes" column to the Kubernetes Clusters view for quicker visibility and access to PV details and metrics

This enhancement would significantly improve observability and troubleshooting by making PersistentVolumes (PVs) immediately visible at the cluster level. Currently, users have to dig through multiple views to find storage-related information. Sur...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Off button for log entry

Customers want to have control to stop log intake in case they are approaching the maximum log intake purchased. To date, there is no mechanism to stop logs from being sent to Instana.
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Process monitoring dashboard

We are using IBM ELM suite of applications on distributed environment and we have around 19 different applications running currently on our environment. We want to monitor that all our process on production are up and running fine. Hence we wanted...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Kubernetes CronJob Monitoring and Tracing

Ability to monitor CronJob as a separate service and enable tracing for CronJobs will help in monitoring the downstream calls just like other services. CronJobs can call other services using Rest APIs. It is helpful if we can monitor those Rest AP...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 8