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Backend Enablement

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Service Configuration

Exclude URL’s Mute requests (Still monitor request but don’t alert
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Easy threshold management

We can’t configure built-in events. Threshold management for every individual service/host. the configuration can be done for services and hosts as well because the operational cost is too high at the moment
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Vulnerability Scanning

We need to detect vulnerability scanning requests, ignore it and don’t alert.
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Ignoring Client IP

We need to ignore requests for some specifiyng client ip. For example, if the request coming from x.x.x.x IP, ignore it, don’t alert.
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Tagging, Management Zone (GUI)

We need to tag service/host/anyCI and show them under logical grouping. Easy filtering with tagging
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Baseline Anomaly - Failure Rate

There is no option of adoptive threshold for erroneous calls. Alternative %10 & %20 static threshold, too many alerts
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Automatic injection Configure via UI (Enable/Disable) Ignore browser version DZM data collector for internet apps these are the things we found rum is lacking at the moment. we are also using dynatrace so we usually compare instana with dynatrace ...
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

URL based parsing

We need to seperate URLs into logical service groups. Our monitoring capabilities are depending on this feature
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Service naming feature

We need to adapt monitored service names with our CMDB. So, we need to re-naming auto detected service, host, process names. Difficult usage: SDK, environment variable definition no regex rules, no separete service type (custom service)
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

exception ignore

We need to ignore some business exception and doesn’t mark as a fail and alert. because every operation has its own bussiness exceptions and sometime they can be ignored for a period of time.
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted