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Instana

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Custom time range to schedule an instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
4 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Need the ability to customize the collection interval for the k8sensor

A number of customers are ingesting more data than the fair use policy allows and are being charged more for their SaaS environment. They want ways to customize the data that is being ingested. One of the largest sources of data in a number of our...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
12 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration

Instana UI has internal feature under Analyze infrastructure called "Graph" to visualize the Host entities combined together . I request this feature to deploy publicly.

I was on call with IBM customer for PHP Tracer showcasing the current support for AWS fargate. I used test-pink environment for the demo where they saw the graph feature of instana available only internally. They showed very keen interest to have ...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Memory Leak Reboot Task - Schedule Control

Hi Folks, I was told in response to a support case that I should raise this issue as a possible improvement. This would be to allow control of the scheduling of the Memory Leak Reboot Task as there appears to be no way to control when this task is...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

AJP port metrics

We have few applications which connects to our webserver/IHS using AJP ports, sometimes on the application side we are noticing perf issues and its impacting our webserver due to the issue with one single application we are seeing impact on entire...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Future consideration

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 6 Planned for future release

Add AWS Neptune Service monitoring

Instana AWS sensor has already good amount AWS services to be monitored and I would like to request to add monitoring support for the AWS Neptune service.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Planned for future release