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Event closing action in automation

Hi, Currently there is no closing action which fires when an event is closed. We need this to tell the central event management console that an issue is resolved. It will nag the resonsible team until a closing event is received.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Delivered

Overcome limitation on monitoring Kafka endpoints

Due to the fact that JVM stack traces are increasing the size of the data sent to back end, and raising our budget, we are configuring some Kafka topics to not being monitored. The problem is that there is a limitation on the number of topics to b...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Delivered

Add Oracle Database Driver Support (oracledb / ocdb) in Instana Synthetic Tests

Currently, Instana Synthetic Tests only support drivers such as mssql and mongodb, which limits the ability to directly test environments running on Oracle Database. Adding support for the official oracledb (and optionally ocdb) Node.js drivers wo...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Delivered

Instana's Microsoft SQL Server sensor not supporting client-side tracing for PHP application for customer

Customer- SBM Limited has a PHP application instrumented with the Instana agent on CRM APP Server where database calls are not appearing in the Instana traces. SQL queries to mssql are missing. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0...
3 months ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 4 Delivered

IDOT release needed on kubernetes/OpenShift for OpenTelemetry support

One of our customers is attempting to transition their monitoring from a typical Instana deployment to a pure OTEL solution. They would like a fully supported solution rather than leveraging open source OTEL collectors. Today, we have IDOT collect...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Delivered

Allow disabling active monitoring of PHP-FPM via pm.status_path in PHP Tracer through a custom setting in Instana configuration

Currently, the Instana PHP Tracer performs active monitoring of PHP-FPM processes using the endpoint configured in pm.status_path, triggering CGI backend requests every second to retrieve the status of the worker pools. This behavior can be mislea...
4 months ago in Instana / PHP 2 Delivered

Integrate Instana with Slack using chat.postmessage API.

To integrate Instana with Slack, Instana documentation suggesting to have webhooks. But our environment does not support outbound webhooks and to post messages to a Slack channel we need to use chat.postmessage API. Could you please suggest workar...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Delivered

loading the base-domain URL should forward the user to the tenant-unit.baseDomain URL for login

We learned from working on the Case "TS019337924 Different login experience", that the following behaviour is the status-quo for k3s selfhosted Instana (3.291.396-0): The URL https://basedomain.de (login fails in your env) is valid just after a fr...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Metric and Dashboard for Server Uptime

Hi Team!Anyway to get Server Uptime information ?Most observability solutions have this feature, so would be very welcome Instana as well. Having server uptime visible in dashboards or alerts provides operational clarity and helps identify issues ...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Delivered

Event Creation based VIOS/LPAR State (pHMC Plugin) on Instana

The customer has enabled the pHMC plugin for Instana and started to get the "State" of their Logical Partitions and VIOs' states. However they are not able to create event based on this state. However to retire their legacy monitoring systems, the...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert / IBM Power 0 Delivered

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