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April 2026 Technical Touchpoint

By Jonathan Campbell posted 28 days ago

  
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Upcoming events:

 May 19th: From Insight to Action: Closing the Gap in Modern IT Operations

In our upcoming webinar, we will explore how cross-domain intelligence and shared context enable the shift from insight to action: unify visibility to understand, correlate signals to decide faster, and streamline workflows to act without overhauling your environment.

 May 21st: High-signal observability with Instana

How you can pick out the important signals from your Instana data, how can you make sure that you are seeing the data that you want to see. Join Hubert Hesse and team as we look at the latest updates around how you can control your data ingest in Instana to make sure that you get the signals that you need when you need them. As always we will cover the latest updates in the topic and then have plenty of time for Q&A

May 28th: Open Office Hours:

Join us for our monthly office hours event. Here you can get answers to your questions as well as a recap of the responses to the previous month’s office hours. We will also provide a brief recap of the new features released in Instana.

Feature Blogs:

Instana OpenTelemetry Infrastructure Correlation Best Practices: From Trace to Infrastructure :

Infrastructure correlation solves this by creating a direct link between your application telemetry and the underlying infrastructure. In Instana, this means you can click from a slow trace span directly to the Kubernetes pod running that service, see its resource utilization, check recent events, and understand the complete context. All in one place.

This blog shows you how to set up infrastructure correlation for applications monitored by Instana with OpenTelemetry.

A Cognitive Model for Modern Observability :

In this preview of an upcoming academic paper we look at the concept of technological plasticity, the ability of a system to reconfigure in response to changing conditions without a fill design. We also explore how this can be used to evaluate observability as it is today and where it can go.

Client Story:

Warehousing Wonders: Dahl’s automation leap with IBM

To support growth, Dahl launched a modernization initiative to expand warehousing, streamline logistics, and rebuild core IT infrastructure. Read this blog to learn how.

Event Replay

ATE: Instana Support

Check out the replay of our webinar with Support Manager, Alex Benford as we take a look at how to make your Instana Support experience more effective and gain resolution of your cases faster.


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April Touchpoint!

Feature Blogs:

Beyond Application Monitoring: Why Infrastructure and Kubernetes SLOs Are the Missing Piece in Your Observability Strategy:

Inspired by Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, SLOs give teams a quantifiable way to balance reliability with innovation. Yet SLO frameworks across the industry have traditionally been limited to application perspectives, synthetic tests, and website performance. Check out this blog to learn how IBM Instana has addressed this gap.

Analyst Report: Achieving Monitoring Consistency and Repeatability With OpenTelemetry and IBM Instana (Omdia):

To support organizations in standardizing observability across their hybrid clouds, IBM is embracing the use of OpenTelemetry (OTel) with IBM Instana. Check out this blog to learn about OTEL with Instana solutions that provide end-to-end observability and monitoring capabilities for customer-facing and internal web and mobile applications.

Client Story:

GMO Aozora Net Bank

GMO Aozora Net Bank introduced IBM Instana Observability to improve transaction tracing during incidents and to centrally manage increasingly complex systems. Read this blog to learn how.