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Enabling and Monitoring IBM ACE Tracing for ISO 8583 TCP/IP Integration Servers

While IBM ACE delivers strong core integration and messaging capabilities, ISO 8583 TCP/IP transaction flows currently rely primarily on native logging and flow‑level diagnostics, which offer limited centralized observability and real‑time operati...
29 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Customer Request: Instana SaaS Usage Metering and Cost Forecasting Dashboard

There is a need to provide an Instana SaaS usage metering dashboard and a cost forecasting dashboard,with enhancements requested to reach a comparable level of functionality to what Dynatrace currently provides. Background for the Feature Enhancem...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Display all WebSphere Datasource Names and allow for multiple metrics for Websphere Servers

Widget with multiple metrics for WebSphere requires a “Datasource Name” dimension. What we want to achieve is the following view: Display all defined WebSphere Datasource Names and for all available WebSphere Server (or based on a filter) for mult...
30 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Automatically onboard new OpenShift namespaces

When new application namespaces are created in OpenShift, an agent restart is required for them to be recognized before instrumentation activity will commence. In an OpenShift cluster with 47 nodes, agent restarts can be a disruptive operation. I ...
27 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

Provide a comprehensive and correct sensor version/release/tag list for a static agent package

Hi, While debugging some .NET tracing issue a constant source of confusion and irritation was/is the versioning and tagging system. Each part of the agent has at least one independent version or release number which is not listed in a comprehensiv...
1 day ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Java tracer should provide data masking capability for log message 　

Instana captures the application log messages at error or warning level. This application log messages are quite useful and essential element for problem determination. But some application may includes PII information in its log messages and in f...
2 days ago in Instana / Java Submitted

Smart Alert based on memory or CPU usage

We have already the possibility to create smart alerts based on the ratio between usage and limits or usage and request, but there is not an option to create an smart alert based on a static amount of memory MB or CPU cores. So lets say, create an...
5 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

Show Metrics for the Number of Active and Closed Web Sessions in Instana Analytics

Instana currently provides visibility into web session data in the “Websites / Page loads” analytics view, but it does not expose metrics to distinguish between active and closed sessions or provide their respective counts. We request that metrics...
5 days ago in Instana / Metric Store Submitted

Need better alert content

When Events trigger and alerts are send to end users, there is a need to have important information as part of the alert. For example, let's say I setup a threshold to monitor for sustained CPU usage greater than 80%. When the Alert is sent, it is...
7 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Need to be able to install and manage Standard Edition via sudo

Today, in order to install and manage Instana Standard Edition, you must login as root. Running commands via sudo does not work properly. Many customers do not allow users to log onto servers as root. All elevated permissions must be accessed via ...
12 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

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