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Instana

Promote "Logs" blueprint on Application Smart Alerts to GA

We would appreciate deploying the "Logs" blueprint on production, but this first needs to be promoted to General Availabilty - it's currently in Preview. Advantages: Fast, low-effort alert creation for error/warning logs Developers can quickly...
3 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Allow for more than five metrics within a smart alert

Within version 1.323.853 smart alerts GA, the wizard only allows for five metrics. In our case, we had seven file systems that we wanted to alert upon, but had to create a second smart alert to contain the balance. In the preview version, we had a...
about 16 hours ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Capture Persistent Volume claim (pvc) storage I/O metrics

we are looking for monitor PVC throughput, IOPS, read/write operations, or other storage I/O metrics for Persistent Volume Claims. TS022752586 - Case confirmed as of today instana do not have this functionality.
3 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

Support for running Instana OTel collector as non privileged user on Kubernetes

There are the following restrictions on Kubernetes for running the Instana OTel collector: Deployment with an operator or Helm chart, but with the following restrictions: Pods with: hostNetwork: true, hostPID: true, privileged: true, hostPath mo...
1 day ago in Instana / OpenTelemetry Submitted

Instana PCI certification

We Have 20 Client Bank. Currently, Dynatrace and other vendors market themselves as PCI-compliant and certified for security; however, when we look into it, Instana falls short of certain certifications. This is a pressing issue because the bankin...
2 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance Submitted

Cordoned / SchedulingDisabled node

We are monitoring our Kubernetes environment on Instana. We encountered an issue where the kubernetes nodes went into cordoned / SchedulingDisabled state. The actual state of the node is "Ready, SchedulingDisabled". We want to set up monitoring on...
2 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

Automatically discover, list, and monitor all operating system processes running on a host

Background and current limitation Please enhance IBM Instana so that it automatically discovers all operating system processes running on a host and provides a complete process list with key resource metrics, without requiring administrators to ma...
16 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

IBM PCIe Cryptographic Coprocessors Issue Detection Capability on IBM i

Provides targeted identification and diagnostic capabilities to isolate operational faults, failures, and anomalous behaviors specifically related to the IBM PCIe Cryptographic Coprocessors. Delivers critical feature alignment for multiple key cli...
3 days ago in Instana / IBM i Submitted

Real-Time OPEN Problem Counter

Maintains an accurate real-time count of all active open problems across the system to provide baseline metrics for system health monitoring and operational dashboards. Universal requirement requested by multiple key clients; applicable across alm...
3 days ago in Instana / IBM i Submitted

Categorized OPEN Problem aggregation on IBM i

Provides the ability to track and aggregate open problems by PROBLEM_CATEGORY or PROBLEM_TYPE based on relevant PROBLEM_STATUS criteria, as well as trigger event notifications when any category count exceeds a defined threshold. Core functional en...
3 days ago in Instana / IBM i Submitted