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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 2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Under review

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 2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Quick search for Alert Viewer

1.6.x Alert Viewer search bar does not support multiple search conditions. For example, user's will sometimes want to search for events with server name = 'xyz' that have summary text = 'something happened'. As of today, the search bar only accept...
26 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review

We want the ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data. For example: We want to store only 7 days of data, and free up EBS space on 8th day.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
27 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Hide system-generated message in the validation rule UI

Amex raised this idea of improving the validation rule UI to have an option to hide the system-generated message that appears below the business-oriented error message, which currently shows the native entity name and ID? While the rule ID is grea...
5 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Allow for manual save on Rich text Fields or Disable autosave

In certain usecases clients wish to restrict certain characters i.e ($%#) from being used in rich text custom fields. We are able to build VRs around restricting these characters, however from a UI perspective users are stuck in a VR message loop ...
5 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Allow for manual save on Rich text Fields or Disable autosave

In certain usecases clients wish to restrict certain characters i.e ($%#) from being used in rich text custom fields. We are able to build VRs around restricting these characters, however from a UI perspective users are stuck in a VR message loop ...
5 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Currency doesn't show in charts

Issue is with metric: Even if you tag the currency, it won't show in the charts and if currency is Euros, it also won't show the Euro sign.
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio tables Show Values not working when RLS Applied

Show values does not work in the RLS Step and users see different row count.
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted