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Support for IBM MQ on native IBM i Agent

IBM MQ sensor support on IBM I agent locally.
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add a metric to monitor the percentage of system spool consumption (based on PRTPRFINT command)

The IBM i can accumulate spooled files over time and consume significant space, potentially affecting system performance. Currently, this consumption is only reviewed manually using the PRTPRFINT command, which leads to a reactive monitoring appro...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Remove Limitation for `OR` logical operator When defining multiple metrics by pattern, only one rule is allowed to use a different matching operator from 'is'.

I believe, this functionality was by design when there is only one logical operator i.e., 'AND'. However, there was an introduction of `OR` logical operator recently between the rules/condition thresholds for metrics. It makes sense to restrict fo...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Toggle whether to get alerted when the issue is resolved for IBMi Message Queue Events

When the agent works on IBMi, when monitoring specific messages in a message queue, we receive two notifications: A warning when the message is detected (event triggered) Another notification when the event closes (event resolved) For this specifi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Add the Ability to Create Alerts on Usage

Customer is using CRIO They are asking for the ability to create alerts on the following: Namespace: stg-cp4i-ace Pods: contains stg1* 1. CPU: 95% usage of cpu requests 2. Memory: 95% usage of the requests Checked with @Jayanth Putta and confirmed...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Planned for future release

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

iSeries servers availability monitoring

iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario.1. Server down2. Password expired3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Planned for future release

Color-coded highlighting based on ticket status

Description: Currently, Instana alert emails display ticket/event details in plain formatting. For better readability, we request support for color-coded highlighting based on ticket status. Request: Open Tickets → Title should be displayed in Red...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Under review