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Convert "Smart Alert" into "Global Smart Alert" and vice versa

Sometimes Instana users own more than one application perspective. Suppose they already defined a smart alert on one ap and later want to apply the same configuration also on other ap(s). Then it would be helpful to have a button in the UI, that a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

Send application monitoring events via kafka topic to Instana

data ingestion/consumption to Instana from Kafka Producers.Use case is that application like ibm biz hub is producing and propagating monitoring data via kafka topic and Instana could be used for monitoring via kafka topic and also existing agent ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Future consideration

Spring Batch Tracing

We are trying to gather traces from Spring Batch applications running as steps in an Argo workflow. The applications may start processing before the Instana agent has discovered and instrumented the JVM. We need a method to effectively trace Sprin...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Future consideration

Instana vulnerability reporting: Need a standard way of versioning the each technology monitored by Instana

I built a custom toolkit that provides a catalog of vulnerabilities found for the technologies monitored by Instana sensors. The source code is placed on GHE [here](https://github.ibm.com/AIOps-Elite-Team/instana-vulnerability-reporter). However, ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

List of events that triggered alerts

It would be beneficial to be able to retrieve a list of all events that have triggered alerts within a specified time frame. Currently, there is no direct way to filter alerts based on which ones were triggered by what events. Adding this fe...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration

Java Object in heap memory

Could it be possible to add the possibility to have a look on the Java Objects in the heap memory ? Currently we could see the threads that are waiting or consuming a lot of CPUs but we cannot see which objects in the heap memory are taking up a l...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

AWS Lambda "invoke" instrumentation

Hello, Recently we have been trying to add our AWS Lambdas to our instana monitoring. We successfully added the node package where it was needed and got good results on lambda call via Messaging (like SQS) or Api Gateways. But we have a problem wh...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Custom-dashboard filter

Hi, Currently a filter needs to be set on each widget of a custom-dashboard. It would be easier and more efficient if a filter can be set on dashboard level. Thanks for considering this feature.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 4

It is required to have support for the Universal Payments Framework (UPF) technology developed by ACI Worldwide.

The UP Framework is at the core of ACI’s Universal Payments strategy to enable end-to-end enterprise payments. It is a set of technologies and frameworks that orchestrate all aspects of payments processing for any payment type, any channel, any cu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration