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Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Need "Export to CSV" option on Analytics/Calls.

Need "Export to CSV" option on Analytics/Calls, so that we can export the data of certain duration & see how many calls, errors & latency was there for multiple applications. This would be useful while analyzing the applications performanc...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Improved functionality -Scheduling maintenance windows

The maintenance windows, but what happens when the window is active, is that the notifications are not sent through the alert channels that we have implemented, e.g.: no notification is sent through Teams or events to Service Now, however the even...
8 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Dashboards: Add variables (dropdown menu) to custom dashboards

Hello, Can you please add variables (dropdown menus) in custom dashboard so that we can have one custom dashboard on which we would be able to show same data but for different application/host/process/jvm.... Those dropdown menus should also suppo...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Request for advanced monitoring for DataPower

Request for advanced monitoring for DataPower. Sysdig exporters are available for both Redis and RabbitMQ. A Bank is seeking similar type IBM cloud workload monitoring for DataPower.. Monitoring and around CPU, Memory, I/O Disk, Monitoring the num...
5 months ago in Instana / DataPower / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

provide Folder organization for dashboards

Currently, when you have a large number of dashboards, they are all just listed (alphabetically at least) in a very large drop down listbox. It would be very useful if there was an alternative way to manage all of the dashboards using folders or s...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Visualize health of application and host in single dashboard/view.

Currently we need to check health of host and applications running on them separately. Since the health of host also affects the application health, it would be good to have a view which shows both application health and host health as one view. i...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 2 Needs more information

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration