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Time Based Monitoring

We have several Monitors which are timing based and trigger on Certain days/date and time. Currently Instana doesn’t handle these request
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic Future consideration

ISM protocols in Instana

We would like to add ISM functionalities from the ISM agent (ITM and APM) to the Instana. It is necessary for us to have these functionalities so we can propose to our current customers to transfer from the ITM/APM solutions to Instana. Several of...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Synthetic

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic Not under consideration

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic Functionality already exists

Introduce a flexible activation delay or scheduled start time for Synthetic Tests,fully supported via UI, API, and the Terraform provider,to prevent premature alerting during long-term system onboarding and manual configuration phases.

Why is it useful? When onboarding new systems or environments via Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Synthetic Tests are typically provisioned at the very beginning of the lifecycle. However, a system is rarely "live" the exact moment its infrastructur...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic Submitted

Synthetic POP support for the s390x architecture

In order to perform Synthetic Monitoring within Instana a Synthetic POP must be established. Unfortunately container images for Synthetic POP are only available for the x86 architecture. Our Instana environment is running on an OpenShift cluster t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic

Mean on each call for the synthetics

Hello, today when we create a synthetic, we can view in the result tab the informations about each call and subcall. My idea would be to create a new tab on the synthetic view that compile a mean for each value of each calls on all the synthetic r...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic Future consideration

Deploying POP without the need for a Kubernetes cluster

We want to deploy a Synthetic Monitoring POP in a remote location in order to perform synthetic tests. The location does not provide a Kubernetes cluster of any flavour which blocks our use case. We would like to deploy a POP on an Android device ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic Not under consideration

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic Not under consideration

Enabling capturing synthetic calls

We noticed (with the support of a support ticket) that the option in "Configure Synthetic Endpoints" > "Auto-Detected Health/Ping Checks" needs to be enabled in order that calls from synthetic monitors are marked as synthetic. It would be usefu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic Future consideration