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Alert mail includes the timestamp in specified timezone

When incident happens, Instana can send the incident mail, and in the mail there is timestamps when the incident starts or closes. But it's timestamp is in UTC. We want to specify the timezone ( like JST ) in the mail. It can be set per alert-chan...
8 days ago in Instana / Alert Functionality already exists

Permit to instana add some SQL Querys

If instana include a module to create your own dashboards using IBM i TR SQL qerys, just help to administrate and create analytic to using this querys. this help to administrators of the infraestructure analyse that grafics.
12 days ago in Instana / IBM i 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...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i Functionality already exists

Option to Ingest Only Host Metrics on Instana Agents (Disable All Sensors)

Summary Provide a configuration option to allow Instana Agents to collect only host-level metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network, etc.) while disabling all automatic sensors and application monitoring. This mode should be configurable either: via E...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 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...
9 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) Functionality already exists

Improve Extension Adjustment on Contracts tab for YoY Changes

Currently, when applying the extension adjustment in coordination with the Extend feature on the contracts tab, it is applying this percentage to the first extension, but not future years. This means that if clients are trying to multiyear plan an...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor Functionality already exists

VMem Request recommendation mode - resize ABOVE max

Select the bottom to enable/disable recommendation's generation below and ABOVE the VMem Request value. Adding a screenshot of the tool with the below option already available. Would be possible to add the resize ABOVE, too?
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) Functionality already exists

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Functionality already exists

MQ sensor should open its local binding connection as MQCNO_ISOLATED_BINDING

On the case TS021288201, our client reported the issue that after MQ forced stop, Instana Agent prevent the restart of IBM MQ. 2/17 17:37:52：MQ force stop2/17 17:39:35：MQ start-> the following error AMQ8041S: The queue manager cannot be restart...
25 days ago in Instana / MQ Functionality already exists

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