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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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

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

Install new Job types / Plug-ins into your distributed IWS Domain directly from the DWC

Leverage the power of the Automation Hub directly from your IWS Dynamic Workload Console to build more robust, agile, and future-ready automation solutions. With over 150 plug-ins the Automation Hub is rapidly expanding and allowing customers to i...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
8 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Add functionality to event rule to include a variable for the dynamic url for the job log

We would like to add the dynamic url to the job log for any job. We envision this might be best facilitated as one of the selectable variables for event rules. That way we could include in the body of the sendmail action, or to the payload sent to...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
about 3 years ago in Instana / Metric Store / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Jobs failed due to Liberty restart needs to be reprocessed post activity instead of going into FAIL.

Dynamic jobs are put in FAIL state after a Liberty or broker restart if at the moment of the restart they were in WAIT/INTRO state (being processed by the broker component but not yet sent to an agent for job submission). This causes lots of manua...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

We want UNIX/WINDOWS job to set TWS JOB to SUCC or ABEND state bassed on the output in Job logs/output.

We want to use this functionality- (Using the variable "this.stdlist" to set TWS JOB to SUCC or ABEND state) with Unix/Windows Job definition. Currently this functionality only works with executable job types. All the Jobs types have advance optio...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Apache Airflow Integration For AWS MWAA

Our Apache Airflow is not a direct opensource and its provided by AWS MWAA version. Due to that we are unable to use the direct integration which is available in https://www.yourautomationhub.io/detail/airflow We are now only able to use the REST ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration