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Ability to view logs after agent loss

It would be interesting to be able to view an agent's logs from the SaaS in order to analyze the reason for its loss. Currently, logs can only be viewed when the agent is reporting to the SaaS, but it would be good to be able to analyze the last m...
1 day ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Unitary tagging

On the tagging tab on the traces, it should be helpful to separate the tags for a better trace monitoring
6 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
23 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Allow Instana agent sending metrics to both Instana backend and our streaming layer, e.g. Kafka

We propose that the Instana agent should be capable of transmitting metrics not only to the Instana backend but also to our streaming layer, specifically Kafka. This dual transmission capability will enhance our data processing and analytics capab...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

End to end transaction journey monitoring.

Multiple banking customers have been asking for end-to-end journey mapping across their payment ecosystem. Their main requirement is to be able to stitch a single business journey across multiple hops, each of which uses a different identifier. Ex...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Allow visibility configs to use "is me"

We are segmenting most budgeting items in portfolios, however we want a higher granularity for example, if I am a member of a Solution Train, show me budgets budgets, but not budgets for other solution trains. we can do this in list views and repo...

ADM should recognize Daylight Savings

Currently in ADM, when we select a time period we have to select EDT (for eastern time zone). Now that we are in EST, when we set up a schedule or reference an older schedule we have to offset the time by an hour to represent the EST time as it is...
1 day ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Need to recognise graceful shutdown of operating systems

Hello Team, we have a customer who is asking for the functionality of Instana to recognise if the restart was manual (graceful) or accidental like power outage, hangs, hardware malfunction. The information helps to reduce time SRE engineers spend ...
2 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted

Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Submitted

Feature Request: Saved Time Ranges

We would like to request a new feature: the ability to save and name custom time ranges. Currently, when we investigate an incident, we have to manually re-select the exact time frame every time. It is also difficult to share this specific time wi...
7 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted