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Search results: Instana

Enable Instana AI Features with Customer‑Managed LLMs

Currently, Instana already provides valuable capabilities such as incident summarization, which are extremely useful for daily operations and troubleshooting. However, the integration with large language models is tightly coupled to IBM Watson, an...
10 days ago in Instana / Integrations Future consideration

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Need the ability to generate an air-gapped package from a desktop/laptop system

Many of our customers do not have a Linux server with internet access that can be used to generate the air-gapped package that is necessary for a Standard Edition installation. They have Linux servers, but there are firewalls that prevent access. ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

Provide a comprehensive and correct sensor version/release/tag list for a static agent package

Hi, While debugging some .NET tracing issue a constant source of confusion and irritation was/is the versioning and tagging system. Each part of the agent has at least one independent version or release number which is not listed in a comprehensiv...
25 days ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
7 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Custom Dashboard - Show Data labels in Pie Chart

We use Instana extensively across our enterprise and have been building custom dashboards with pie charts for various reporting needs. While analyzing the data, we noticed that the pie‑chart tooltip displays only the percentage value without the c...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Want an option for automatic one-liner and Windows install in Infrastructure mode

When performing an installation using the automatic one-liner or the Windows installer, there is no option to setup the Agent in infrastructure mode. This can cause a number of problems. There are times when applications are sensitive to the RFH2 ...
11 days ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Limit visibility of Filters

Using Filters in Instana to create queries is open to any user no matter what team they belong to. It would be better if controls / visibility can be put on them. We have various Teams set up in Instana and the filters are available to be viewed a...
22 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
8 months ago in Instana / Metric Store Future consideration

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