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Instana

    Need Air-gapped support for the k8s IDOT - Self-Hosted Custom Edition

    Since October 2025, the FIS(Fidelity Information Services) customer has been working to enable distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry (OTel) integration to achieve end‑to‑end traceability across Istio, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy and related components....
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

    CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

    Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

    Custom Dashboard - Show Data labels in Pie Chart

    We use Instana extensively across our enterprise and have been building custom dashboards with pie charts for various reporting needs. While analyzing the data, we noticed that the pie‑chart tooltip displays only the percentage value without the c...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

    Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

    Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
    5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

    Improve Export Reports from Instana

    Instana could be better if your reports has been simple. and let to integrate for example 1 2 or 3 ...N Lpar statitics in the same reporte CPU, ASP, Active Jobs, Subsistems, etc... because the current export reports are so simple, right now instan...
    12 days ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Submitted

    Expose DB2 JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values in Instana SQL traces (optional / configurable)

    For enterprise z/OS customers running mission‑critical DB2 workloads, Instana SQL visibility is functionally limited because AutoTrace, by design, does not capture JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values, rendering all parameters as ?. While d...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / DB2 1 Under review

    Instana IBMi Host Discovery of IBM HTTP Apache Host Service

    Currently, our customer is discovering all Springboot and WebSphere Services but we are not discovering their Apache Tomcat Services and stitching them in our Services Dependency Mapping. This is critical for our Worldpac to have End to End Visibi...
    3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0

    Alert mail includes the timestamp in specified timezone

    When incident happens, Instana can send the incident mail, and in the mail there is timestamps when the incident starts or closes. But it's timestamp is in UTC. We want to specify the timezone ( like JST ) in the mail. It can be set per alert-chan...
    7 days ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

    SOC1 Type2 Compliance for IBM Instana

    This idea is to request SOC1 Type2 compliance for IBM Instana. For some customers, SOC 1 Type 2 compliance is a prerequisite; offerings that do not meet this requirement will not be considered.
    8 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted

    Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

    We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
    7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2

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