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Instana

Ability to have Multi-Metric Smart Alerts for Applications. i.e Health Rules

Problem: Customers migrating from AppDynamics rely on health rules that combine multiple metrics (latency, error rate, throughput) within a single alert. Instana currently limits application smart alerts to a single metric. Proposed Capability: Al...
15 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring FrankenPHP

FrankenPHP is a new technology that improve php work and may replace it in the future and expected to migrate most current php application to it.
about 1 month ago in Instana / PHP 0 Under review

Add a CVE report in json format into each new agent rpm

Our organisation requires us to keep software on latest or latest-1 release of all software.Due to the rapid release cycle for the static agent rpm (every 2 weeks), this puts a lot of pressure on teams to keep updating the product - we have thousa...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
6 months ago in Instana / Logging 2

SDK custom service tags

Hey. There's an ticket about this ideia: TS020581290 We want to separate the tags for the SDK custom service instead of bringing all together, cause a mess when creating dashboards and events.
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

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.
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 7 Future consideration

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
10 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units. Currently, when a user is logged in, they can only see one Unit at a time and have to continuosly switch back and forth between units. There are two reasons they want visibility across multipl...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / Backend Enablement 7 Not under consideration

Complete Role for managing entire infrastructure of Instana and all of its capabilities through Ansible on Self-hosted with agents running on AIX

Complete Role for managing entire infrastructure of Instana and all of its capabilities through Ansible on Self-hosted with agents running on AIX. Kindly requesting the best possible way to implement the Automation through Ansible that provides th...
17 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted