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Instana

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Unitary tagging

On the tagging tab on the traces, it should be helpful to separate the tags for a better trace monitoring
25 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Create one Smart Alert for monitoring the same threshold for many volumes

Hello Team, Instana offers monitoring of disk/volume usage based on named metric like "/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root" Used disk percentage and for each kind of volume we ask users to create a separate Smart Alert. Our customer is interested in monit...
8 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3

Need ability to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data - Backend database

In Instana we have ability to configure retention period for metrics data and but not for Traces and Transactional data, I need the same flexibility to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data as well. for example my clickhouse...
29 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Planned for future release

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

Post-processing of ingested data

This idea is to allow for post-processing of ingested data in Instana, essentially a custom transformation layer.
6 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Enhance AWS monitoring

The following AWS offerings are not monitored by Instana: AWS Route 53AWS TransitGatewayAWS VPNAWS NetworkFirewallAWS NATGatewayAWS DXAWS CertificateManagerAWS EFSAWS Events
6 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Details about pipelines and releases

Right now in Instana we can manage releases via APIs and can see them via the time picker. But we cannot see details about the release: how long did it take, what it changed (broke), etc. This idea is to enhance the pipelines / release CI/CD suppo...
6 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0