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Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
8 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Planned for future release

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

License expiration notification should be configurable

Currently, all users accessing Instana will get a notification that the license is about to expire 30 days prior to license end date. This notification should be configurable, allowing admins to enable and configure it. Configuration of who gets t...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration

make an automation to automatically delete ES indexs of data so that /data wont fill up

we have a lot of data, /data is filling up very quickly and than the system doesn't work, we dont want to allocate more and more storage, and the data in old indexs files are not relevent anymore, so automating deleting old ES data indexs would he...
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review

Need support for .Net Kestrel web server for ASP.NET Core

Dear colleagues, we have a customer, who heavily uses Microsoft ASP .Net Core Kestrel weserver for their applications: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/servers/kestrel?view=aspnetcore-10.0 At the moment they run the web s...
3 months ago in Instana / .NET 1 Future consideration

I would like disk usage monitoring to be included in the "Custom Polling" metrics.

Currently, it is not possible to change the polling interval for disk usage monitoring (default 1 second).I would like to be able to change the polling interval for disk usage monitoring in the future.
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Needs more information

Enable website automatic instrumentation for NGINX

Hello, Currently it is possible to automatically instrument website monitoring on the Apache. As our organization is currently in the process of migrating part of the webservers from Apache to Nginx, we would like a possibility to have the same fe...
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
over 1 year ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Automatic event creation for process alerts

We are looking for a solution to employ a predefined list of Processes on the agent config and would need an event for "process down" created if the Instana server detects that process metrics came in from a host at any point and maintain that sta...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1