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Instana

    Email Alert Subject Customization

    The email alert subject is currently not customizable with limited options provided only to prefix or suffix. The Advanced feature in the alert channel does not provide us the flexibility to design email subject format. It would be helpful to prov...
    about 20 hours ago in Instana / Alert 1 Submitted

    Start using VolumeStalledIOCheck as a possible metric to calculate EBS availability (SLO)

    To improve accuracy of created SLO rules for this service type, the VolumeStalledIOCheck is one of the possible additional metrics that can help on this case. "This alarm helps you monitor the IO performance of your Amazon EBS volumes. This check ...
    17 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

    Alert closure when an entity comes back Online

    When a monitored entity goes offline (a failed process, JVM, application server, or any other monitored entity), Instana generates an alert. However, when the entity comes back online, a resolution event is never received. Instana considers the re...
    3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

    When two metrics are plotted with a widget having different frequency of data collection both should display consistently, line, area or point.

    When the two widgets are placed in a custom dashboard showing two metrics that are collected with different interval with Line or Area mode, it display differently for each metrics. This happens when the two metrics were added to the same widget. ...
    27 minutes ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

    Agent-side redaction of URL path segments before reporting to the backend

    Problem Instana's secrets mechanism redacts query parameter values in the agent, before anything is sent to the backend. There is no equivalent for path segments. Any personal identifier carried in a URL path is therefore transmitted to and retain...
    about 7 hours ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

    Smart alert configuration should support all tags include host tags that are configured in the host agent configuration

    Tags are created at several instances and for different requirements. Not all tags are not available during smart alert configuration. Following is an example: com.instana.plugin.host: tags: - 'Environment:Prod' - 'App:TestServer'&n...
    2 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

    Multi-Filesystem alerts

    We need to monitor multiple filesystems on a host using a single rule, while allowing a different threshold for each filesystem. Today, when creating an alert covering multiple filesystems, the webhook payload does not clearly identify: Which fil...
    3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

    Expected Middleware instance status derived from configuration

    A host may contain one or more application servers (WebSphere, Liberty, Tomcat, JBoss), and all configured instances for each of them are expected to be running. Instana only creates entities when it detects them running and does not inspect middl...
    3 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

    Admin configurable Banner/Ribbon or pop-up message in GUI.

    It would be most useful to have the ability to have a crawling ribbon/banner on the top of the UI for users or a pop-up at login.  This would allow direct communication by Instana Admins to inform the user community of upcoming changes, maint...
    3 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

    Request for Improvement to the stanctl Air-Gap Mirroring Process

    As discussed in case TS022882479, the mirroring process for air-gapped environments fails far too frequently. According to the engineering team’s investigation, this is likely not an issue with stanctl itself, but rather caused by server-side idle...
    7 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Needs more information

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