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Java Configuration-based SDK need support LMAX disruptor framework

We have a major business partner(Worldline - a world wild payment solution provider) is using LMAX disruptor within their new generation payment solution(PaySuite), they would like to partner with us to leverage Instana as the primary observabilit...
6 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
3 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any rastreability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Default Dashboard for DB2 Monitoring

🎯 Goal : Enable database administrators and operations teams to quickly assess the health and performance of DB2 environments without additional setup or custom dashboards. 📊 Suggested Dashboard Structure: Overview Total DB2 Hosts monitored Total ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Not under consideration

Method to completely disable the k8sensor deployment when using the instana-agent-operator

Customer would like to a way to disable the k8sensor within the kubernetes agent to manage data ingestion costs. The instana-agent-operator ignores the k8s_sensor.deployment.enabled: false configuration. This k8sensor activity counts towards data ...
8 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Add Support for Adaptive (Dynamic Baseline) Alerting in Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Currently, the Infrastructure Smart Alerts feature only supports static thresholding, even though the UI mentions “time-dependent” values. These thresholds do not adapt automatically to changes in system behavior over time. Instead, users must man...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0

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