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Smart alerts on Core Web Vitals statistics

It'd be useful to be able create smart alerts based on Core Web Vital statistics like "Interaction to Next Paint (INP)". Being able to create alerts based on these would open multiple possibilities to monitor web application performance. For examp...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 5 Future consideration

Allow for exclusion of k8s platform metrics by namespace

Today, APM mode can be disabled for whole k8s namespaces. However, metric data collection for basic namespace stats (at the platform level) is always collected. Sometimes customers use name spaces as a build or temporal environment with highly ela...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Integrate AWS Service Health Data into Instana

When the inciden happens, our client understand that is a regional incident or just specific node in their environment. So ingest the data from the Amazon Service Health and show it related component in the instana. https://health.aws.amazon.com/h...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Need the ability to dynamically populate Teams access

The customer has the need for the access controls for Teams to be dynamically populate. The customer has strict naming conventions. Those naming standards can be applied to things like tags, application names, website names, etc. The expectation i...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Is a defect

Agent startup should always use a local jvm if one is available within the agent durectory structure

Currently, when rolling out instana agents via automation, we have to explicitly unset JAVA_HOME to force the Instana agent to use the locally available jvm for the agent. We believe this should be the default that if an agent is available within ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Change ACE autodiscovery to work for non-running processes

The autodiscovery for ACE currently works by looking for running ACE processes.Autodiscovery should discover all ACE installations, and all ACE entities (node, integration servers, message flows etc) whether or not they are running at the time. Al...
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 3 Under review

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Want to be able to white list custom data being ingested

Due to our fair use policy, it is important for customers to be able to detect and control the data that is being ingested. For out of the box sensors, the data ingest is fairly stable and predictable. But, when custom monitoring is used, it can g...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Under review

Need the ability to track which API Keys/Personal Access Tokens are making API calls

Given that there are scalability issues with large numbers of API calls, the customer has the need to understand which people and which API Tokens and personal access tokens are running large numbers of API requests. That way they can identify whi...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists