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Alert on changes to Vulnerability exposures

Please allow for the ability to alert on changes in risk posture and exposures / impact of applications as vulnerability data is surfaced within Instana. The goal of such alerting would be to allow for quicker prioritization of remediation and fix...
about 11 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Allow for an RBAC role that controls viewing of vulnerability data

Today, vulnerability data is viewable to anyone who has access to an application perspective. For some organizations this level of detail may not be appealing to a wide range of users. Please provide a mechanism to allow enabling/disabling viewing...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Allow vulnerability data to be published from third-party sources

It would be useful to not have IBM Concert required to perform vulnerability correlation. Please provide an API method to push vulnerability data from a customer's tool of choice into Instana for visualization and event metrics that are equivalent...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Instana IBMi Host Discovery of IBM HTTP Apache Host Service

Currently, our customer is discovering all Springboot and WebSphere Services but we are not discovering their Apache Tomcat Services and stitching them in our Services Dependency Mapping. This is critical for our Worldpac to have End to End Visibi...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Ben Stern

Need to capture application payloads via tracing. The customer stores business data in the application payloads and they want to be able to view that data within Instana and build custom dashboards and write thresholds against the business data. T...
4 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

instana alerts triggered on occurence of several events

Currently it is possible to raise alerts on the occurence of one or more events but event by event. I would be awesome to be able to create alerts triggered on the occurence of more than one event occuring at the same time. So alert condition are ...
5 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Add Instana tracing support for Wiremock

As explained in TS019691255 Instana does not support tracing for Wiremock-based applications. Wiremock is however one of the most popular testing tool for mocking and testing APIs with broad adoption and very high usage. For us it would be very he...
8 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Need to monitor instance status

Dear colleagues, our customer is currently monitoring Database statsus and instance status using Tivoli Monitoring and consider moving to Instana. They miss db2 instanace status in instana. We cannot collect the instance status using custom metric...
8 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

IBM i agent to collect ILE Cobol tracing information (iDoctor light) 

A customer , iDoctor user; would like to have a consolidated view of the IBM i agent tracing info and ILE tracing. Currently , the solution is to identify a job/program with Instana and use a PEX trace /JW collection to drill down and investigate....
9 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

IBM i agent to collect CL tracing information (iDoctor light) 

A customer , iDoctor user; would like to have a consolidated view of the IBM i agent tracing info and ILE tracing. Currently , the solution is to identify a job/program with Instana and use a PEX trace /JW collection to drill down and investigate....
9 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted