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Meta Data in traces and end-user beacons used for smart alarm metrics

We tried to create smart alarm with using our website's metadata in traces and end-user beacons. With the current version, we can use these for filtering the available smart alarm metrics but we can't create alarms based on them. Some errors can b...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Specify multiple threshold values, to have different during day/night

Our network traffic pattern is similar to a sine-cure. During the day, around 100 000 request and during the night, around 20 000 calls. The reason for this pattern, is simply that our end-users are sleeping during the night thus, a less number of...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 2 Not under consideration

SNA application support for Instana on z

Instana cannot trace SNA application.Please add the support to trace by Instana, or provide the method to trace it by the customizing application programs, such as adding the tracing subroutine.
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Not under consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Third party library stack traces

Having the source map integrated into instana is very helpful, however sometimes, the stack trace is not that clear, because the stack trace reported is related to a third party library, and in this case the mapping is not very helpful
about 3 years ago in Instana / Common / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

Websites/More metrics in Page Load trace

Based on many comments received from customers we will value you consider adding the following key metrics in the page load trace of websites:OnLoadTimeDOM TimeFirst PaintFirst byte timeRequestResponse Thank you.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Capture resource statistics outside of page load phase

EUM tickets from Conrad: - we don't record asset loadings once page load phase is over - reason for this is that the user could potentially record a lot of garbage data - this needs a proper strategic evaluation - also could result in much more da...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Web site monitoring to be able to handle Multi-factored Authentication (MFA)

All of our web sites are MFA enabled.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Link the Trace ID from Instana UI to external ELK dashboard

For Instana monitoring z/OS application, there are more detail monitoring metrics from z/OS platform and usually be avialable in ELK stack. The trace data catpured by Instana on z/OS has some correlation with the transactional metrics collected by...
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Not under consideration

Improve EUM Page Load View - Add Script Type Labelling for Calls pre Page Load Completion

All calls that are processed before the page load has been completed are being labelled "OTHER" instead of their actual type. Can they be retroactively analysed and labelled correctly instead? Please see added screenshots for reference.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration