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Instana

    HAProxy Tracing

    Tracing capabilities for HAProxy, similar to what is already available for nginx
    over 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 1 Planned for future release

    Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

    In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
    about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

    Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

    Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
    6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

    Additional data required while monitoring Oracle DB

    Customer is interested to view more details while monitoring Oracle Databases using Instana. 1) SQL ID CPU Usage section shows all details except CPU Usage %. Also it would be useful to expand details about each Instana ID. 2) TOP CPU Consuming Se...
    about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

    Documentation for Instana data retention policy

    Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
    over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Future consideration

    k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

    When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
    about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

    Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

    I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
    about 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 2

    Add AWS Neptune Service monitoring

    Instana AWS sensor has already good amount AWS services to be monitored and I would like to request to add monitoring support for the AWS Neptune service.
    over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

    Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

    NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
    over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Planned for future release

    Ability to setup event on multiple conditions

    The possibility to compare / set into relation more than one value in an Event definition? I mean I have Data Source, Metric, Operator, ... - but only for _one_ parameter. What I need is something like this: Value A > 70% value of B -> Alert...
    over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

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