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When multiple alerts are sent to a given alert channel, send a single message instead of 1 message per alert

Some users have more than 50 applications. When a core application is down, all connected applications generate an alert. Then the user receive a lot of emails or teams messages, which makes it difficult to handle. We would like to add the possibi...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Not under consideration

About Azure MySQL Lock

Is it possible to collect Azure MySQL Lock-related metrics and set up events? Assuming no, is there a roadmap for the future?
11 months ago in Instana / Azure 1 Future consideration

Make Instana Agent API available on IPV4

We have a use case where we remote monitoring a database and need to access the instana agent API to generate events/changes/incidents but the API port is only available to the localhost so we cannot access it remotely. Making the APi port availab...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Availability Check for SAP Non ABAP Systems (Convergent Charging, BO Systems, SAP Web Dispatcher, and so on)

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored For Convergent Charging Systems: SAP CC Instance Availability High GC heap usage It would be helpful if Instana could execute Powershell scripts and evaluate the corresponding status of the ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Trace through Azure API Management and Azure Service Bus

Clients use Integrations running in Azure are expecting full tracing end to end through Azure API Management - Appservice - Azure SQL - Azure Service Bus - Azure Functions. Today Instana can only trace through App Services and Functions so we can ...
11 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Future consideration

Provide support to run the agent as non-root

With Separation of Duties (SOD), there are a number of application servers that are within a permission sandbox, ie WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Java JVM, which the running profile (user/group) has read, write and execute within it's direc...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Alert Suppession with multiple NOT conditions is not working as expected

Alert Suppression with multiple NOT conditions in INSTANA is not functioning as expected. When configuring suppression rules that include more than one NOT condition (e.g., NOT tag1=value1 AND NOT tag2=value2), alerts are still being triggered for...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

Adding additional tab to the services/kubernetes namespace dashboard with custom information

"We have a Service Catalog that includes the service name, service description, and contact information (name, phone, email, etc.) of the programmer or team responsible for support. Similarly, we also have a Namespace Catalog with comparable infor...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review