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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 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted

Enable Export of Events Tab Data to CSV or Provide API Query Builder

Instana's Events tab provides valuable insights into application and infrastructure behavior, but currently lacks a straightforward way to export this data for external analysis. I propose adding one or both of the following features: CSV Export...
12 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Enable Alerting on Business Metrics in Instana

Instana currently supports the ingestion of business metrics via OpenTelemetry (OTLP), which is a powerful way to correlate application performance with business outcomes. However, there is no native mechanism to create alerts based on these busin...
12 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Apply a filter on "Estimate" widget

As a Finops I would like to be able to apply a filter to my widget, to exclude taxes for example. It would be relevant because a lot of companies doesn't have to pay taxes and doesn't want to track them.
23 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

We would like to see labels / annotations at a pod-level instead of a cluster-level via report or API

Our internal team tags their Kubernetes clusters at a pod level because they track their client's usage via pods since it's more granular. However, right now Cloudability reports and API pulls only give us access to cluster level labels & anno...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Cloudability feature that analyzes Azure Event Hubs and reports over-provisioning and rightsizing recommendations

What We Need A Cloudability feature that analyzes Azure Event Hubs usage and tells us when we're paying for more capacity than we need (or when we're about to hit limits). Since tier and capacity are set at the namespace level, we need rightsizing...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Submitted

Could 'AWS Cloud WAN' be assigned to ATUM Service Category 'Network'

It is currently 'unallocated'. Therefore WAN (wide area network) charges are NOT picked up in the Network section as they should. This makes all reporting based on ATUM Service Category 'Network' incomplete.
14 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Ensure alerts are reliably delivered even during temporary outages

Hi, At the moment when an event triggers an alert the channel doesn't guarantee delivery of the message or action and it even doesn't log what has happened of if anything happened at all. Therefore we request to improve Instana’s alerting mechanis...
14 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add audit trail logging for Instana alert channel

Hi, While implementing Instana at a banking IT data center in Germany we discovered the need for logging the alert channel interactions that have happened. The automation framework already provides such an action history. We need exactly that for ...
14 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted