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Custom Script Sensor

We request the ability for the Instana agent to natively execute scripts on the host and ingest their output as metrics — without relying on Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry endpoints, also with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Functionality already exists

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor Functionality already exists

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i Functionality already exists

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
about 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) Functionality already exists

Smart Alert based on memory or CPU usage

We have already the possibility to create smart alerts based on the ratio between usage and limits or usage and request, but there is not an option to create an smart alert based on a static amount of memory MB or CPU cores. So lets say, create an...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Functionality already exists

ITCAM MQ cfg SET QUEUE NAME should have a way to exclude queues

Currently the SET QUEUE NAME option in the MQ agent .cfg file is only able to include queues. This makes it difficult to exclude specific queue names such as SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE. Being able to use regular expressions in the selection of queues ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 Functionality already exists

Disk Alerts - Group by fs_mount in dashboard chart

Each hostname can have multiple mount points, while creating widget in the custom dashboard we are not able to group by fs_mount to display the disk mount percentage of each host. Withou tthis option, how do we know which mount i having a problem ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Functionality already exists

Introduce 24x7 alerting feature for servers being monitored by Instana

Clients at KSRSAC, DBBL, Alice Blue (IBM lost this deal), Nabil Bank have requested alerting to be made available when a server shuts down. During PoC they would intentionally shut down a server and ask the sales team, how would they know if the s...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Alert Functionality already exists

support FastApi 0.115.8 and Celery version 5.5.2 to monitor Python nodes

Looks like Instana does not supports this version for FastApi "0.115.8" and Celery version "5.5.2" Instana requires following version only to enable container monitoring for Python docker services We are using instana version as = 3.4.1 when we ar...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Python Functionality already exists

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Automation Functionality already exists