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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 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Add Treemap visualization to Cloudability dashboards

A Treemap widget/visualization would enable teams to see a heatmap in a cloudability dashboards. A treemap would also enable a more comparitive view
4 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 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...
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 ...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Need an additional Date Range option for this month last year.

In the dashboard view of Cloudability, for date range. I would like to request a new option be added for last year-month. It would cover this month last year, so Oct 1st - Oct 31st of 2024. It would have that same range all month long, then on 11/...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Integration into CMDB

ideally, Instana should have an integration with CMDB where information about these technologies and hosts are maintained. It will be efficient if Instana can read the CMDB so we can scope internal classifications for monitoring or alerting (Dynam...
9 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Number of months until x date

The idea would be to have a dynamic counter, to make some advanced calculated metrics. The example is the running rate that needs to be achieved until the end of the contract.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Create count function

Have a metric function in order to pull count. Currently we can only gather information from metrics such as cost, usage, and sustainability. From count function, we would want to identify the number of accounts.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration