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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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0

Add an option to trigger Synthetic Monitoring alerts only when failures occur in multiple locations

Allow alert rules to require failures from at least X different locations within a set time window before triggering. This reduces false positives from localized issues, minimizes alert noise, and ensures alerts focus on problems likely to impact ...
12 days ago in Instana / Alert / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Support for custom scripts to generate alerts with scheduling in Instana.

The Instana capability would consist of providing an option to associate a custom script with a host or any other element, along with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined interval. Depending on the script output, an alert event could be g...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Allow configuration of custom OIDC scopes in Instana SSO settings (e.g. entitlement_group)

Currently Instana’s OIDC integration only supports specifying the discovery URL. Instana always requests the default scopes (openid, profile, email). In our environment, critical authorization information (entitlement_group, authorization_group, s...
10 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Under review

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1

Instana SaaS must support Dual(Multiple) SSO in the same tenant as Dynatrace is supporting now.

My customer is using Dynatrace that supports Dual SSO, so they are using SAML via Okta for SSO of regular employees and Azure SaaS AD for SSO of partner employees both are having different email domains.However, I got answered from IBM Support tha...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Improve Instana SaaS by supporting "User sessions query"

Dynatrace provides the User sessions query with SQL-like methods It is a functionality to query and view various metrics in a table.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 3 Needs more information

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review