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Instana

Wildcard support or dynamic time-series graphing for all top-consuming processes on AIX.

The customer monitors process performance on AIX servers. Currently, by adding combineTopProcesses to the agent configuration.yaml, Instana provides a static table updated at 30-second intervals showing the top processes. While this static snapsho...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common Needs more information

Adding "Destructive GET" option in MQ Panel

Hi Team, Recently we experienced a high CPU incident caused by bad messages stuck in a specific MQ queue. The messages were looping and driving CPU consumption, which led to LPAR slowness.To remediate, we had to prepare and run a JCL to clear the ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ Needs more information

Enhance Host Process monitoring

We have identified several gaps in process monitoring capabilities when comparing IBM Instana with IBM Tivoli Monitoring. We would like to submit the following enhancement requests: Currently, process monitoring must be explicitly defined in the c...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Needs more information

Pop up notification for maintenance (including emergency maintenance)

Currently, popup notifications are displayed for new releases; however, no such notifications are shown during maintenance periods.We would like to request the following enhancements:• Please enable popup notifications not only for releases but al...
3 months ago in Instana / Common Needs more information

Smart alerts linked to performance issues

Smart Alert generation allows for triggers from latency, call, throughput, custom events metrics, etc. But not from the metrics or objects shown in the "Performance Tab", i.e: frozen screen occurrences. The idea would be to extend the trigger opti...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Needs more information

Mute alerts through "Application Perspective" as scope in Maintenance Window of Instana

Instana Maintenance Window has scope called "Application Perspective" where in the document says it mutes the alerts but when connected with product team, they say the feature hasn't been implemented. The synthetic tests provide the ability to be ...
3 months ago in Instana Needs more information

worloads of particular hosts and their health/status

within a zone of hosts , it would be easier to select major hosts and group them together to check the status and health oh those hosts. i did not see that except for the concept of application services, we need a infra pov.
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Needs more information

Manage Metrics & Data storage - ability to delete data based on time, limit the time frame data retention

We have standard edition in our environment and recently we have an issue where the data file system is reaching 98% which causes performance issue i.e. we're unable to view events in Instana GUI. We should have the ability to delete collected dat...
3 months ago in Instana Needs more information

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Needs more information

Application based smart alerts overview that shows tiggered issues

Hi, As we are implementing Instana to monitor a rather big environment with tons of apps, devs, ops and teams, Smart Alerts seem to be a good way to reduce workload due to the generic nature of the configuration. It is unusable though as it is ATM...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives Needs more information

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