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Instana

Failed to detect Integration Node failure

There is no way to detect Integration Node failure using either built-in or custom metrics in EVENT. The only way is to use "system rules - offline event detection" to trigger event right after Integration Node failure. However, several issues wit...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Submitted

Improve Geography view to allow view by states

By allowing the customer to have region/provinces as a deep view, they can use it as data for marketing or increase the MTTR by mapping regional providers/services/laws affecting the availability of their services. Right now, the customers is expo...
7 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Metric Explorer for Instana

Elevance Health has this capability in the Broadcom Wily tool and it was very convenient. It is lacking in Instana.
about 4 hours ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Singularity (now Apptainer) Monitoring

While giving a Demo to St.Jude as a prospective customer they asked us about Instana and Container monitoring , specifically on a container software called Apptainer (formerly Singularity) which they are required to use. this was asked byt the HPC...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Folder-Level Permissions Not Discovering Resources Across Multiple Projects

Having Instana supports only one GCP project per configuration is problematic from a configuration and management overhead point of view. The Instana documentation was not clear that sub-folders were not covered and has resulted in wasted effort i...
2 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Alignment of IBM MQ Queue Visibility Between Instana Applications and Infrastructure for z/OS Environments

This enhancement is essential to enable true end-to-end observability across IBM Z environments within Instana by ensuring consistent and correlated visibility of MQ queues across both Applications and Infrastructure views. Currently, MQ queues ar...
4 days ago in Instana / IBM Z Submitted

Add support for MQ HA using VCS (Infoscale)

Since many enterprises use VCS (Infoscale) to manage HA for MQ, historically it has always been the popular option, it would be great for Instana to support MQ HA using VCS.
4 days ago in Instana / MQ Submitted

Extended Query size in On-Prem Backends

Instana at the moment only collects the first 4KB of a query. Expanding the query capture limit beyond the current 4KB for Self-Hosted Instana deployments would unlock significant value for both customers and our own troubleshooting capabilities. ...
12 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

There is no support or integration available for monitoring IBM HMC V11 within Instana.

A growing number of customers are migrating to IBM Power Systems with HMC Power 11 and require full monitoring capabilities within Instana as part of our Managed Services Platform (MSP). However, the current lack of support and integration for HMC...
17 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

stanctl install path for air-gapped and non-air-gapped need to be the same

The customer initially did their Standard Edition install using the air-gapped package. Per the installation instructions, stanctl is placed in /usr/local/bin. Later, the customer was able to get the Instana repos white listed and changed to onlin...
3 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted