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Search results: Instana

Add Native Alert Ownership and Metadata

Problem: Instana lacks first-class ownership metadata for alerts. Relying on custom payloads in the alert. Proposed Capability: Owner/team field on alerts Tag-based filtering Alert inventory and export APIs
22 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Delivered

Add Terraform Provider Support for Instana Mobile Application Alerts

Instana currently allows configuration of Mobile Application alerts through the UI and API. However, this capability is not available in the Instana Terraform provider, preventing organizations that rely on Infrastructure-as-Code from automating a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert Delivered

z/OS USS Started Task Procedure for Host Agent

Provide a method to allow for automation of Instana host agent under z/OS USS that allows for starting the agent outside of an SSH session.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Delivered

Please make instana mysql supports sha2 authN

From mysql 8.0 onwards, it uses sha2. To enable sha1 will require restart and make it insecure as sha1 has vulnerability.So Please make instana mysql agent supports sha2 authN
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Delivered

Have slack configuration natively within the Instana UI

With current slack integration, users must have permissions to create slack channels and generate the webhook URL. At the customer, there are users without these permissions. And, it would trigger security auditing and require security approvals. ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert Delivered

Monitor MySQL v8.4 DB

To monitor MySQL v8.4 Database and collect detailed metrics, we need to configure the Instana Agent with defined credentials as referenced in this is part of configuration document. With that in mind, we see the message: "Client does not support a...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Delivered

We have 7500 VMs monitored by monitoring at vCenters. We want to retrict the vSphere monitoring to ESXi level and want to disable VMs monitoring.

We have 7500 VMs monitored by monitoring at vCenters. We want to restrict the vSphere monitoring to ESXi level and want to disable VMs monitoring. Kindly prioritize it as monitoring high number of VMs without the requirement add performance overhe...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Delivered

Email alert should show Start/End time in IST instead of UTC

For banking operations, alert timelines (start/end) must be clearly understood in local time (IST) without manual conversion errors.
4 months ago in Instana / Alert Delivered

CPU Usage graph for AIX is misleading

Now several CPU metrics is collected for AIX as attached. User System Wait Hypervisor Stolen idle cycles Used Idle These metrics is stacked on a single graph. But actually "Used" metric is sum of "User" "System" and "Wait", so the ...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Power Delivered

Outlier detection for infrastructure smart alerts

Many competitors implement outlier detection (example from Splunk: https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-observability-cloud/create-alerts-detectors-and-service-level-objectives/create-alerts-and-detectors/built-in-alert-conditions/outlier-detection)....
4 months ago in Instana / Alert Delivered