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Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
2 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
5 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Ensure alerts are reliably delivered even during temporary outages

Hi, At the moment when an event triggers an alert the channel doesn't guarantee delivery of the message or action and it even doesn't log what has happened of if anything happened at all. Therefore we request to improve Instana’s alerting mechanis...
about 11 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add audit trail logging for Instana alert channel

Hi, While implementing Instana at a banking IT data center in Germany we discovered the need for logging the alert channel interactions that have happened. The automation framework already provides such an action history. We need exactly that for ...
about 11 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
about 19 hours ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Make additional attributes available for column customization and filtering

Being able to make additional elements and information available for sorting, export, and filtering would greatly enhance navigation and decision making in the platform. Options to display additional info. i.e. entity tags, account tags, etc. Near...
about 24 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Add Entity and Action UUIDs as an available column in the Search and Actions tables

The process for getting to this information easily for 50+ or even 1000+ items when utilizing the APIs to do metadata tagging is very cumbersome and requires multiple navigation clicks to move from one item to another. Making this an available cus...
about 24 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Turbonomic Parking: Allow for a start date in future for parking

Currently, when you attach a schedule - it takes effect immediately. The idea would be to allow parking schedules to have a start and stop date - much like regular schedules.
about 24 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
1 day ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted