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Workspace Instana
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Created on Apr 21, 2026

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Manage Metrics & Data storage - ability to delete data based on time, limit the time frame data retention

We have standard edition in our environment and recently we have an issue where the data file system is reaching 98% which causes performance issue  i.e. we're unable to view events in Instana GUI.  We should have the ability to delete collected data/metrics based on time frame, abiltiy to determine which metrics has the collected the most metrics; and the abiltiy to limit the data retention/collection based on metrics and/or host.  (Simliar to ITM data warehouse); this way we will have control on disk usage. 

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Paras Kampasi
    May 16, 2026

    Hi Gladys,

    Thank you for the detailed context, very helpful. To make sure we capture the full scope of your request accurately, could you clarify whether your data management and retention concerns are limited to just infrastructure metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network, etc.), or do they also extend to other data stores within your self-hosted deployment, such as distributed traces, trace metrics, and logs? Each of these resides in a separate backend store, so knowing which ones are driving your disk utilization will help us prioritize the right controls.

    Additionally, would out-of-the-box alerting for your self-hosted Instana cluster be valuable, for example triggering alerts when any data store disk approaches a critical threshold? And would a built-in administrative view showing a granular breakdown of disk consumption by data store, metric type, or host help your team proactively identify what to prune before hitting a critical limit? Understanding the full picture will help us ensure this is captured as a well-scoped product enhancement with the right priority.

    Kind regards,
    Paras Kampasi

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