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Instana

Want to be able to block Agents that don't have a "tag" with a compliance naming convention

The customer manages their monitoring solultion in a very decoupled way. Each business application is able to setup and deploy their own agents. But, there are naming conventions that are used to ensure that the Agent is supposed to connect. And, ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Need the ability to send SMS messages directly from Instana SaaS

Want the ability generate an SMS message directly from Instana. There are parts of the company that have access to Pager Duty, but it is not used universally. So, the customer has a need to general SMS messages. This would be for a SaaS deployment.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Need the ability to track and setup limits on Alerting egress

The customer has had issues with their monitoring products where an Event Storm overwhelms their Alerting targets. In particular, the Event Storm caused issues with their ability to use their email system. The monitoring tool flooded their email s...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Monitoring Nutanix Kubernetes Platform

We need support for monitoring the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform. Nutanix was named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Support for databricks on AWS EKS

Databricks monitoring is supported in Azure and we need support for this on AWS EKS.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Provide a way to cleanup unwanted tags for otel

Hello, We noticed that otel dynamic tags when they reach a hard limit of 500, blocks the filtering of new tags. If there is a way to delete tags which are obselete then this gives more control to the user. Another idea is to set priority to the ta...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Support for on-prem SignalR

Customer is using signalR in one of their core applications. Without native support of on-prem SignalR, the customer is not able to use Instana to trace the complete call stack.
4 months ago in Instana / .NET 1 Future consideration

In the case PHP app, It want to integrate Instana with DBMarlin for SQL analysis.

In the case PHP app, It can't integrate Instana with DBMarlin currently in PHP trace. Because, It don't show [Find SQL in DBMARLIN] in Instana PHP trace. Please integrate Instana with DBMarlin in the PHP app.
4 months ago in Instana / PHP 0 Future consideration