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Close an incident

An incident (or issue) occurs and it appears to be a false positive.It would be useful that this incident can be closed with a comment for example
14 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Is it possible to get an alert when a VM is live migrated in Azure

Is it possible to get alerts from Instana when VM is live migrated in Azure (Microsoft Alerts are inconsistent)
12 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

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.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Needs more information

Improvements to Infrastructure & Platforms charts in custom dashboard

I set the following conditions for any user. * For the group to which the user belongs, set host A in Infrastructure DFQ in Areas of Groups settings * In the widgets of Dashboard X published to this user, I selected Infrastructure & Platforms ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Under review

Instana console showing servers in offline state

There happend a case where a few servers had instana agent stopped running and they stopped showing up on the console infrastructure monitoring. There should be a way in the instana console where we can see the server being shown in the map or in ...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Being able to see OS patches needed

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

Ability to search by POD IP in dynamic focus

The use case is to identify the POD details from a Nginx downstream when it returns an error for no response from downstream service and it returns only IP of the downstream POD. However, unfortunately the current filtering with dynamic focus can ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

SASL Support for Kafka Plugin: Kafka view does not show Consumer Groups Lag Per Topic 

Kafka Plugin has only SSL support for finding Consumer Group Lag https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-kafka#ssl-tls-support We need SASL support as well to monitor Kafka in our setup. Please provi...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Under review

Trigger alert from offline event only if there was no restart after a configurable amount of time

Currently, if I create an alert based on an offline event, the alert will immediately be triggered when the entity goes offline. Often an entity is only restarted, so if an alert is generated that would be a false alert. Instead it should be possi...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release