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Instana

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Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

support Scala 3.x and ZIO

this feature request based on debug case number TS018964881. right now instana agent does not support Scala 3.x and ZIO. can you support in next release.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 5 Future consideration

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

Windows operating system support (ARM architecture)

Support the installation of agent in Windows (ARM) for collection of the operating system metrics and identification of the technologies running on the host.
11 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Detecting/Alerting on poisoned queues for IBM MQ

One of our top 4 banking customers in Australia had a Sev 1 incident last week, where their Internet Banking was down for 1 hour due to a poisoned queue. This was not detected by any monitoring tool and took some time to get to the root cause and ...
11 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Expand Instana Severity Levels to match with Netcool Omnibus and other AIOps Event Management.

Dear IBM Instana Product Team, As a customer currently using IBM APM V8 alongside IBM Instana for application performance monitoring, we appreciate the robust capabilities and insights provided by Instana’s monitoring platform. However, we have id...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Improve Instana SaaS by supporting "User sessions query"

Dynatrace provides the User sessions query with SQL-like methods It is a functionality to query and view various metrics in a table.
4 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability 4 Not under consideration

IBM ACE trace custom tag endpoint IP and port Telemetry

When you had trace in ACE 10 and 11 using user exit, you had the ability to have grouping and control of who invoked the APIs. When you switched to using opentelemetry ACE 12, you can no longer see that grouping. We want it to be incorporated agai...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Add possibility of creating public dashboard and exposing it without authentication

Hello Colleagues, we have a second request, please consider adding a functionality of creating a public dashboard with it's exposure without authentication. Thank you
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration