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Instana

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Environment label

Hi, We use different Instana backends in our organisation. Each Instana backend is responsible for an environment (DEV/ACC/PRD). It would be nice that we can add an indication of the environment (a label for example) in the top banner of Instana. ...
16 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

1yr performance graphs

Expand time range for the largest selectable timespan to one year in the user interface. This allows customer's operations team to see long term performance and capacity trends. The yearly graph should have 365 daily datapoints which will speed th...
17 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Addition of SSL certificate days to expire on Synthetic Monitoring Page

We'd like to have visibility of the days to expire on the main/landing page (a column added alongside the other metrics monitored such as health, latency, status etc.) of the Synthetic Monitoring page, for a quick glimpse of the certificates that ...
18 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

COPA OA: Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. 

Dashboard templates Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. The standard out-of-box dashboards show a dump of all metrics. Curated dashboard templates for use cases that can be activ...
20 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Under review

COPA OA: Flexible dashboarding for metric correlation needed

Need ability to study correlated metrics. For example, how is the CPU and disk usage behaving with user load? How is garbage collection affecting response times? Comparison of different metrics on the fly is available in ITCAM that is not availabl...
20 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Under review

Include time range in exported dashboard

When exporting Dashbaords (ie/ PDF) time range seclected is not included. Thefore if ther is no time series then we have no clue on what is the time range of the shown metrics
25 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

Standard edition without need Subdomains

We need the possibility to run instana without the need of Subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing DNS Settings
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

Configure custom management port for Rabbit MQ sensor

During a POC with a customer to observe Cloud pak for Data, found that the Rabbit MQ sensor doesn't allow anything other than default of 15672 as management port. Should allow custom port so that the products which use custom port can show more value
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review