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Metrics based on log file filters

Hello Team, we have a customer who needs to analyse appearing of certain records in a log files to make file monitoring more efficient. Our IDOT has "filelog" receiver, but misses connectors like "countconnector", "sumconnector", etc. to perform c...
4 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Instana Deployment on OpenShift Must Comply with RH ACS Policies — or Provide Clear Exceptions

When deploying Instana on OpenShift, the deployment should comply with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (RH ACS) policies. If full compliance is not technically feasible, Instana must provide transparent explanations of the gaps and rationale, so...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Under review

add webhook log

Currently, when webhook alert notifications are sent, there is no way to confirm if the delivery was successful. There is a need to add a status query API for alert retransmission. 1. Add an API to query the results of webhook alert notifications....
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

"Save" feature is required in configuration tap of Websites monitoring for customers to check which options have been applied for EUM

In the configuration page at the tap of Websites, our customers should check which options have been applied, especially regarding "Set up an agent tracking script" such as Select the application framework used by your website(Multi-page app or Si...
8 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Not under consideration

Alert Audit Log, basically a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, which channel, what payload, etc…

We would like to ask for a feature to allow for Alerts to be protocolled and saved (kind of an Alert Audit Log). Basically, a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, what payload, etc…Website and Applications use Smart Alerts. I ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
8 months ago in Instana / Common 2 Future consideration

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists

Granular breakdown of data ingested from Infrastructure

There is evidence of data ingestion at a general level, but it is not possible to discriminate which host, metric or application is generating the highest consumption. This request goes in two ways:1. To have a report or dashboard that shows how t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

A possibility to have fixed Time Range in a specific Custom Dashboard

For example: in the whole Instana UI by default the Time Range is set to ‘Last Hour’ but for the specific dashboard created by myself I want to have it set for ‘Last Month’ and when I will open it, I won’t need to change anything - the ‘default’ C...
about 1 year ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration