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Backend Enablement

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instana alerts triggered on occurence of several events

Currently it is possible to raise alerts on the occurence of one or more events but event by event. I would be awesome to be able to create alerts triggered on the occurence of more than one event occuring at the same time. So alert condition are ...
1 day ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Under review

Backup and restore capability for all configured alerts and events

As an IBM APM V8 and IBM Instana customer, this request is to ask for a "backup and restore capability for all configured alerts and events" to support operational continuity, disaster recovery, and change management in large environments where hu...
13 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Need ability to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data - Backend database

In Instana we have ability to configure retention period for metrics data and but not for Traces and Transactional data, I need the same flexibility to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data as well. for example my clickhouse...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Planned for future release

Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

log instana api request origin e.g. host address

We have instana monitoring integrated with several tools consuming data from instana via Instana REST API.It would very benificial to have logged either in audit log or/and in api token overview in instana the origin of api request with source ip/...
26 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

When running Stanctl up, it should be possible to run without doing an update.

If there is a new version of backend available. You can`t run Stanctl up without doing an update or cancel Stanctl up. It should be possible to do an Stanctl without update. Because if you have some issue and have to restore VM. You want to run st...
26 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Needs more information

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration