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Custom Alerts - Missing fields when sent to Alert Channels

Custom Alerts in Instana are missing important fields like below and whereas out of the box alerts are having these values. Even Custom alerts should have below values, when sent to alert channels. 1) IBM Instana IBM MQ Queue - Current Queue depth...
12 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Not under consideration

Would like to see the Queue represented in the Dependency topology for an application

In the customer's environment, our dependency map only shows the interactions between the Queue Managers. But, the interaction actually happens between the Queues. Since there are hundreds of queues on a queue manager, the customer wants to see th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Configuration Precedence for Local and Client Binding Mode

When Client Binding mode is configured, the Agent will still try to use Local Binding mode first, which results in a plethora of error messages which could be avoided by simply skipping the automatic detection if a configuration has been set. This...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add Kafka as an Alert Channel

Some customer as CA GIP want to collect all the data on a Topic Kafka to be consumed by other applications/services. We can do that with a middleware and a webhook, but having a real alert channel to send data directly with custom payload.
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Allow custom events be created for entity type: IBM MQ MFT Monitor

Currently, IBM MQ MFT Monitor is not available as an entity type to select when creating a custom event. The use case would be to create a custom event on IBM MQ MFT Monitor when they are in a status other than STARTED.
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Queue-Level Message Size Visibility

Instana can enhance its monitoring capabilities by introducing the ability to collect metrics for the message sizes at the queue level, complementing the existing feature of bytes received at the channel level.
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Need to monitor Durable queues

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors Durable queues with Tivoli Monitoring in a way we can't replicate in Instana. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below are the dif...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Queue triggers missing for threshold creation

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue triggers to replicate a situation our customer uses in Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in the parameter implementation. Below are the different example...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need Instance parameter representation in thresholds and percentiles

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several parameters that we need to monitor Queue Channels: Instance numbers Instance percentile Channels percentile Our customer monitors them with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration