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Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
23 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Add web browser resource monitoring to Website EUM

We are using Instana’s Website EUM to gain insights into frontend performance and user experience. However, we’ve encountered situations where users were unable to complete key workflows—such as transactions or form submissions—because their brows...
8 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Request for Kafka Partition-Level Metrics Collection in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide the ability to collect Kafka metrics at the partition level. For example, it is not possible to monitor the backlog of messages for each partition. If such information cannot be obtained directly in Instana, it ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
9 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

VPC flow logs for Cloud

I have 2 customers interested in VPC flow logs for both Azure & GCP. For GSP is was called out as a requirement
3 days ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Submitted

Create a new standard role for Credentials only

In some cases, for MSPs, the customer has not yet moved to a CSP/MSP agreement within the hyperscalers. In those cases, the customers own their credentials and environment in the hyperscaler. If the customer is planning to move to a CSP/MSP agreem...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Submitted

Compliance - Data retention policy for ITM

To comply with the data retention policy, we need to implement a mechanism within ITM that automatically removes older data and logs from both the tool and the underlying system.
4 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Add Flexera Technopedia integration

Required by Dec 2025 for Visa POC.
4 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Ability to Use Multiple “Device Metadata” Variable in a Report

While exploring Data Insight, we found only a single “Device Metadata” variable value could be used as a filter for each report. The ask is to allow multiple “Device Metadata” to be used in given report.
4 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Submitted