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Want to be able to white list custom data being ingested

Due to our fair use policy, it is important for customers to be able to detect and control the data that is being ingested. For out of the box sensors, the data ingest is fairly stable and predictable. But, when custom monitoring is used, it can g...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Provide the ability to see which Agent and which custom data is generating the most data. And, the ability to block high volume consumers

With the fair use policy, there is the possibility of a customer exceeding their data usage. The customer wants the ability to prevent that from happening. The challenge is that they don't know who is generating the majority of the data. The audit...
2 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Future consideration

Auto Profile support for AIX

Auto Profile support for AIX https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-profiles https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling From the above link: At the moment Aut...
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Cross teams/areas 3 Planned for future release

Session Duration Tracking in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide a way to determine the duration of a user session, either via the UI or API. This feature request proposes adding functionality to track and retrieve session duration, including the total time a user spends logg...
11 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Needs more information

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 4 Future consideration

Instana UI usable in iframe

We want to make certain alerts and metrics for our call readiness visible in a mobile app. Currently, the integration via iframe does not seem to be possible due to the frame-option setting. Can frame-option be configured by customer?
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Scaling appdata processor with HPA

We are using the instana self hosted operator and hpa to scale up appdata processor based on cpu usage we noticed that after the first start of the container it has a really high error rate. Maybe the container marks itself healthy too early. I at...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas / Self Hosted 1