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Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Under review

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Planned for future release

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

Include Process Details in Email/Msteams Alert

1. Currently, in Instana, the alerts we receive via email or Teams do not include information about which process is consuming high CPU. However, when we check the event details within the Instana UI, the specific process name is available. 2. It ...
12 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Overcome limitation on monitoring Kafka endpoints

Due to the fact that JVM stack traces are increasing the size of the data sent to back end, and raising our budget, we are configuring some Kafka topics to not being monitored. The problem is that there is a limitation on the number of topics to b...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0

Reducing data load by optimazing JVM StackTrace storage

Data load is ending into high costs for Instana customers, and probably for Instana itself. Analyzing the root cause of these big ammounts of data sent to the backend, we have realized that JVM's stack-traces are big chunks of data, which are main...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
3 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 1 Submitted