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Instana

Introduce 24x7 alerting feature for servers being monitored by Instana

Clients at KSRSAC, DBBL, Alice Blue (IBM lost this deal), Nabil Bank have requested alerting to be made available when a server shuts down. During PoC they would intentionally shut down a server and ask the sales team, how would they know if the s...
5 days ago in Instana / Agent / Alert Under review

Openshift Cluster Monitoring - Namepsace specifc

We need Cluster Registration & Metadata for specific namespaces excluding node information in Kubernetes Infra. The OpenShift platform team will not grant cluster-wide permissions (ClusterRole) required to deploy the Instana k8s-sensor via Ins...
17 days ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes Under review

Ability to configure / turn off host metrics

Hi, During our rollout we found a couple of Linux systems that mount >1400 disks. As each of those creates a couple of metric we ran into the limit: Monitoring issue: max_metrics_reached This left us without important metrics like memory usage ...
18 days ago in Instana / Agent Under review

Instana On Prem Swagger

For Instana SaaS and on-prem backends with internet access, users can rely on the IBM developer portal to browse and try available APIs. However, customers operating in restricted or fully isolated environments do not have that option, which makes...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Under review

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...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

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. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing Under review

Customer Request: Instana SaaS Usage Metering and Cost Forecasting Dashboard

There is a need to provide an Instana SaaS usage metering dashboard and a cost forecasting dashboard,with enhancements requested to reach a comparable level of functionality to what Dynatrace currently provides. Background for the Feature Enhancem...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Display cluster queue where base queue resides on remote MQ managers

Instana is unable to show the base queue name of an alias queue where the base queue resides on a different queue manager. This should display the base queue name and type though it resides on other queue manager.
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ Under review

Enhancement for MQ

Currently, Instana doesn't support ALL MQ queue types like ITM. Please refer to "ITM queue types.jpg". Instana to monitor all type of queues like ITM
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ Under review

Enable Accurate (Non-Bucket-Aligned) Data Retrieval Mode for Analytics and Custom Dashboards

We request the introduction of a configurable option in Instana to allow accurate data retrieval strictly aligned with user-defined time filters, without internal bucket alignment, rounding, or visualization-driven aggregation adjustments. Current...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review