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Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

API - missing link between service and process

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the whole application stack (AP > service > process > host) through the Instana API. Currently I'm using the following API requests: {{baseURL}}/api/application-monitoring/applications?nameFilter=xxx {{baseURL}}...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Improved scoping on Host Unavailability Detection

As a user wanting to detect host unexpectedly going offline, I want to be able to filter the scope of this detector based on attributes beyond just host tags (e.g., to exclude a few of the worker pools from alerting using DFQ such as "entity.selfT...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

New Joined Hosts to new default zone

Dears, How can we set / configure Instana to add new joined hosts to a certain zone instate of "Undefined Zone"? We need all new joined hosts to be member of "New servers" zone for example instate of "Undefined Zone"... and later we can configure ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to exclude entity from scope

I faced a problem with excluding one service from scope in Dynamic Focus Query when I tried to add alert for critical incidents. Also the same for PA, I can use only AND or OR operators. It will a good if you add possibility to exclude service fro...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Being able to see OS patches needed

Would be nice to see the OS patches needed for VMs
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Port info should be in the framework dashboard

ISBANK wants to track Port info and it should be in the framework dashboard.This is not a supported framework, we cannot collect that information.This idea for a framework sensor to collect that to our Sensor Team.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Enable Profiling for Openshift containers by environment var

Feature Request​Original ticket: We are wondering if it's possible to enable java profiling (https://www.instana.com/docs/profiling/configure-profile) just for Openshift containers with a defined env. variable.Example: com.instana.plugin.profiling...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

"tag prefixes" in infrastructure map

Suppose we have 3 agents with the following tags:agent1: app=shop1agent2: app=shop2agent3: app=shop1 + app=shop2When I open the InfraMap grouped by tag prefix “app=” I see two groups (shop1 and shop2) and the agent3 belongs to one of them – depend...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Display number of Active Servers for a respective service against time-series chart

Customer would like to monitor their ASG based EC2 instances auto-scaling activity and they want a metric to plot in custom dashboards against the time-series chart. They have attached a reference image which they used to plot in their previous AP...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration